Roman building-stone
Roman building-stone
HER Number
1415
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Roman building-stone
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Commemorative
Site Type: Broad
Commemorative Stone
Site Type: Specific
Centurial Stone
General Period
ROMAN
Specific Period
Roman 43 to 410
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
A pair of squared stones, "resembling those of which the gateways of the mile-castles on the Wall were built", was found in or before 1807 in a garden wall at Heaton Flint Mill. The inscribed one of the two stones, 25 x 19 inches, was presented to the Society of Antiquaries by Sir Matthew White Ridley Bart. Inscribed: c(enturia) Iuli Numisia/ni Vlpius Can/alius / et L(ucius) Groutius “From the century of Julius Numisianus Ulpius Canalius and Lucius Groutius (cut this)”
Easting
425517
Northing
566896
Grid Reference
NZ425517566896
Sources
<< HER 1415 >> J. Hodgson, 1840, History of Northumberland, Vol. II, part 3, 280
J.C. Bruce, 1857, Catalogue of the Inscribed and Sculptured Roman Stones... Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, I, 223
R.C. Bosanquet, ed. 1929, John Lingard's Notes on the Roman Wall, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, VI, 141 & n.
G.R.B. Spain, 1930, Inscribed and Sculptured Stones Newcastle, Northumberland County History, XIII, 547 no. 13
R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 1315
J.C. Bruce, 1857, Catalogue of the Inscribed and Sculptured Roman Stones... Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, I, 223
R.C. Bosanquet, ed. 1929, John Lingard's Notes on the Roman Wall, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, VI, 141 & n.
G.R.B. Spain, 1930, Inscribed and Sculptured Stones Newcastle, Northumberland County History, XIII, 547 no. 13
R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 1315