Benwell Fort (Condercum), Building slab

HER Number:
5312

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Benwell Fort (Condercum), Building slab

Place:
Benwell

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

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:
Building slab, 59 x 22 inches, found in 1937 in the portico of the granaries in Benwell fort. Now in Museum of Antiquities. IMP(ERATORI) CAES(ARI) TRAIANO HADR[IA]N(O) AUG(USTO) A(ULO) PLATORIO N[EPOTE L]EG(ATO) AUG(USTI) PR(O) P[R(AETORE)] UEXILLATIO C[LASSIS] BRITAN(NICAE) 'For the Emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus under Aulus Platorius Nepos, emperor's propraetorian governor, the detachment of the British fleet (built this). [Nepos governed Britain AD 122 to 12th century6].

Easting:
421600

Northing:
564700

Grid Reference:
NZ421600564700

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5312 >> R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, Roman Inscriptions of Britain I, Inscriptions in Stone, p 443, no. 1340 1938 Journal Roman Studies, xxviii, p 200 pl, xxxiii Simpson and Richmond, 1941, Archaeologia Aeliana, xix, (1941), 19 pl iv