Chapel House, milecastle 9, 5 building-stones

HER Number:
1272

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Chapel House, milecastle 9, 5 building-stones

Place:
Chapel House

Map Sheet:
NZ16NE

Class:
Architecture

Site Type: Broad:
Architectural Fragment

Site Type: Specific:
Architectural Fragment

General Period:
Roman

Specific Period:
C2

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Five building-stones in the footing-course of Chapel House milecastle (no. 9), found in 1929, 1 and 2 on adjacent stones in the south face of the south wall, 3 and 4 on adjacent stones in the north face of the south wall, and 5 on the east face of the east wall next to a stone inscribed with X. Now lost. Each of the five stones reads: VIII.

Easting:
1786

Northing:
6627

Grid Reference:
NZ17866627

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1272 >> E.B. Birley, 1930, Excavations on Hadrian's Wall west of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1929, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, VII, 160 and pl. xlv.1 G.R.B. Spain, 1930, Inscribed and Sculptured Stones, Northumberland County History, XIII, 562 no. 8 R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 1370