Benwell Fort (Condercum), granaries, inscription

HER Number

16746

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Benwell Fort (Condercum), granaries, inscription

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

150 x 56 cm. Inscribed IMP(ERATORI) CAES(ARI) TRAIANO/ HADR/IA/N(O) AUG(USTO)/ A(ULO) PLATORIO N/EPOTE L/EG(ATO) AUG(USTI) P(RO) P[R(AETORE)] VEXILLATIO C/ASSIS] 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)'. This inscription comes from the granaries in the fort at Benwell and demonstrates that the fort was constructed, like the milecastles, within the period of governorship of Aulus Platorius Nepos. AD 122-125/6. In the Great North Museum: Hancock 1956.178A.

Easting

421592

Northing

564798

Grid Reference

NZ421592564798

Sources

DJ Smith, 1974, Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle upon Tyne - An Illustrated Introduction, 12; Archaeologia Aeliana, Series Four, Volume XIX (1941), pp 19-21, plate IV; R.G. Collingwood and R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain I: Inscriptions on Stone, 1340