Walbottle, Roman building-stone

HER Number:
1277

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, 13 x 7 inches, found built into Hadrian's Wall near Walbottle sometime before 1789, when Brand records it as being in his possession. Acquired in 1864 by the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne as part of the Brand Collection. Inscribed: coh(ortis) V((..)) / c(enturia) Iuli Iuu(enalis?) "From the fifth (or sixth or seventh) cohort the century of Julius Juvenalis (built this)".

Easting:
17161

Northing:
66341

Grid Reference:
NZ1716166341

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1277 >> J. Brand, 1789, History of Newcastle, I, 607 n.y J.C. Bruce, 1875, Lapidarium Septentrionale, 52 (42) W.T. Watkin, 1889, On some newly discovered Inscriptions of the Roman Period, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XIII, 191 R.G. Collingwood, 1925, Roman Britain in 1925: Inscriptions, Journal Roman studies, Vol. XXV, 249 no. 14 G.R.B. Spain, 1930, Inscribed and Sculptured Stones, Northumberland County History, XIII, 559 no. 26 C.E. Stevens, 1948, The Building of Hadrian's Wall, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XXVI, 34 R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 1375