Walbottle, Roman building-stone
Walbottle, Roman building-stone
HER Number
1278
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Walbottle, Roman building-stone
Place
Walbottle
Map Sheet
NZ16NE
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-stone, 10 x 6 x 6 inches, found in 1794 on the site of the south mound of the Vallum a little to the east of Walbottle". Inscribed: c(enturia) Pere/grini "The century of Pereginus (built this)".
Easting
417161
Northing
566351
Grid Reference
NZ417161566351
Sources
<< HER 1278 >> J.C. Bruce, 1857, Catalogue of the Inscribed and Sculptured Roman Stones... Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, I, 246 no. 87
J.C. Bruce, 1875, Lapidarium Septentrionale, 49
G.R.B. Spain, 1930, Inscribed and Sculptured Stones, Northumberland County History, XIII, 561 no. 3
J.D. Cowen, 1951, Nugae Epigraphicae, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 4, XI (for 1947-50), 358-60
R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 1376
J.C. Bruce, 1875, Lapidarium Septentrionale, 49
G.R.B. Spain, 1930, Inscribed and Sculptured Stones, Northumberland County History, XIII, 561 no. 3
J.D. Cowen, 1951, Nugae Epigraphicae, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 4, XI (for 1947-50), 358-60
R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 1376