Newburn, Roman building-stone

HER Number:
1288

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newburn, Roman building-stone

Place:
Newburn

Map Sheet:
NZ16NE

Class:
Architecture

Site Type: Broad:
Architectural Fragment

Site Type: Specific:
Architectural Fragment

General Period:
Roman

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Building-stone seen by Stukeley in 1725 over a stable door next to the Boat Inn, Newburn. The inscription, surrounded by an ansate frame, was even then illegible, and is now lost.

Easting:
165

Northing:
653

Grid Reference:
NZ165653

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1288 >> W. Stukeley, 1776, Iter Boreale, 64 G.R.B. Spain, 1930, Inscribed and Sculptured Stones, Northumberland County History, XIII, 561 no. 2 R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 2088