Wallsend, Roman building-stone

HER Number:
1405

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Wallsend, Roman building-stone

Place:
Wallsend

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE

Class:
Architecture

Site Type: Broad:
Architectural Fragment

Site Type: Specific:
Architectural Fragment

General Period:
Roman

Specific Period:
C2

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
A building-stone seen before 1732 by Horsley; now lost. Inscribed: coh(ortis) X / c(enturia) Iustini / Secundi “From the tenth cohort the century of Justinius Secundus (built this)”.

Easting:
29

Northing:
65

Grid Reference:
NZ2965

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1405 >> J. Horsley, 1732, Britannia Romana, p. 208 G.R.B. Spain, 1930, Inscribed and Sculptured Stones, Wallsend, Northumberland County History, XIII, p. 543 no. 12 R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 1312