Wallsend, Roman building-stone
Wallsend, Roman building-stone
HER Number
1400
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Wallsend, Roman building-stone
Place
Wallsend
Map Sheet
NZ26NE
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 found before 1732 presumably west of Wallsend and seen by Horsley at Cousin's House. Now lost. Inscribed: coh(ortis) II / c(enturia) Vari / Celeri(s) From the second cohort the century of Varius Celer (built this).
Easting
429698
Northing
565810
Grid Reference
NZ429698565810
Sources
<< HER 1400 >> J. Horsley, 1732, Britannia Romana, p. 208
G.R.B. Spain, 1930, Inscribed and Sculptured Stones Wallsend, Northumberland County History, XIII, p. 543 no. 10
R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 1310
G.R.B. Spain, 1930, Inscribed and Sculptured Stones Wallsend, Northumberland County History, XIII, p. 543 no. 10
R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 1310