Walbottle, Roman building-stone

HER Number:
1275

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Walbottle, Roman building-stone

Place:
Walbottle

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:
Building-stone, 8.5 x 8.5 inches, found in 1794 built into the wall of a stable at Walbottle. Inscribed: c(enturia) p(rimi) p(ili) "The century of the senior centurion (built this)".

Easting:
17

Northing:
66

Grid Reference:
NZ1766

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1275 >> J.C. Bruce, 1875, Lapidarium Septentrionale, 51 J.C. Bruce, 1857, Catalogue of the Inscribed and Sculptured Roman Stones... Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, I, 240 no. 56 G.R.B. Spain, 1930, Inscribed and Sculptured Stones, Northumberland County History, XIII, 562 no. 4 C.E. Stevens, 1948, The Building of Hadrian's Wall, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XXVI, p. 39 n. 63 J.D. Cowen, 1951, Nugae Epigraphicae,Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 4, XI (for 1946-50), 358-9 R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 1373