Newcastle, Newgate Street, inscribed stone

HER Number:
6613

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Newgate Street, inscribed stone

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Inscribed Stone

General Period:
Unknown

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Inscribed stone, part of a mantel piece, taken out of an old house in Newgate adjoining the Empire theatre now demolished. 2 feet high x 16 inches wide. On it a shield divided into quarters, letters RM, AM and IM and the year (uncertain) in respective quarters. Donated to the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne by Messrs Howe and Thornton, per Mr JS Robson.

Easting:
245

Northing:
643

Grid Reference:
NZ245643

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, Series 3, I (1905), p 105