Byker, Roman altar
Byker, Roman altar
HER Number
1414
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Byker, Roman altar
Place
Byker
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Findspot
Site Type: Specific
Altar
General Period
ROMAN
Specific Period
Roman 43 to 410
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
An altar, 11 x 21 inches., with plain sides, and with an oblique hole bored through the right hand top edge of the stone, worn as if by a mooring-ring or cable. Found in 1884, 90-100 feet south of the new Byker Bridge during the construction of a new road south from the east end of the bridge. Inscribed: Iul(ius) Max/imus sac(erdos) / d(ei) I (... / O (... / pe(cunia sua) / cu(ravit) / ... “Julius Maximus, priest of the god I(..., at his own expense undertook...”
Easting
426400
Northing
564600
Grid Reference
NZ426400564600
Sources
<< HER 1414 >> W.T. Watkin, 1885, Roman Inscriptions discovered in Britain in 1884, Archaeological Journal, XLII, 141
J.C. Bruce, 1885, Roman Altar from Byker,Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 2, I (for 1882-84), 357-9
J.C. Bruce, 1886, On a Roman Altar from Byker, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XI, 120-1
G.R.B. Spain, 1930, Inscribed and Sculptured Stones Newcastle, Northumberland County History, XIII, 545-6, no. 10
R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 1314
J.C. Bruce, 1885, Roman Altar from Byker,Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 2, I (for 1882-84), 357-9
J.C. Bruce, 1886, On a Roman Altar from Byker, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XI, 120-1
G.R.B. Spain, 1930, Inscribed and Sculptured Stones Newcastle, Northumberland County History, XIII, 545-6, no. 10
R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 1314