Tyne and Wear HER(1442): Newcastle, Clavering Place, Roman building-stone - Details
1442
Newcastle
Newcastle, Clavering Place, Roman building-stone
Newcastle
NZ26SW
Commemorative
Commemorative Stone
Dedication Stone
Roman
Find
Building-stone, 13.5 x 10 x 2.5 inches, found in 1864 in Clavering Place within the area once occupied by the White Friars Friary. Inscribed: coh(ors) I Th/racum "The First Cohort of Thracians (built this)". It has been suggested that this Cohort may well have been in garrison in Newcastle.
249
638
NZ249638
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G.R.B. Spain, 1930, Inscribed and Sculptured Stones Newcastle, Northumberland County History, XIII, no. 12, pp. 506, 546
E. Birley, 1937, Centurial Stones from the Vallum west of Denton Burn: Appendix, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XIV, 238-9
R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, no. 1323
E.J. Phillips, 1977, Great Britain, Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani, Vol. I Fasc I, no. 279