North Gosforth, Roman building stone from the Chapel

HER Number

168

District

Newcastle

Site Name

North Gosforth, Roman building stone from the Chapel

Place

North Gosforth

Map Sheet

NZ27SW

Class

Monument <By Form>

Site Type: Broad

Findspot

Site Type: Specific

Centurial Stone

General Period

ROMAN

Specific Period

Roman 43 to 410

Form of Evidence

Find

Description

A building-stone, 17 x 9 inches, was found in 1826 built upside down into the external plinth at the east end of North Gosforth Chapel in the grounds of Low Gosforth House. It was probably brought from the Roman Wall, which lies about 4 miles to the south, and is now in the Museum of Antiquities. Its inscription reads 'coh(ortis) VII / [...]' 'From the seventh cohort...' .

Easting

424630

Northing

570110

Grid Reference

NZ424630570110

Sources

<< HER 168 >> J. Bell, 1832, An Account of the Remains of a Chapel ...near Low Gosforth House... Archaeologia Aeliana, 1, II, pp. 243-45
A. Huebner,1873, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, VII, 1028
Rev. R.E. Hooppell, 1882, On the Ruins of an Early Church at North Gosforth, near Newcastle... JBAA, Vol. 38, pp. 117-121
S. Holmes, 1883, ...Recent Investigations at the Ruimed Chapel of North Gosforth, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, IX, pp. 205-210
M.H. Dodds, 1930, Northumberland County History, XIII, p. 564, no. 1
R. G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, p. 438, no. 1324
B.H. Pritchard, 1968, Ordnance Survey archaeological record card