Newcastle, Moot Hall, two Roman altars

HER Number:
1470

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Moot Hall, two Roman altars

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Religious Structural Object

Site Type: Specific:
Altar

General Period:
Roman

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
In February 1810, during the "digging of the foundation for the county courts ... near the north-east corner of the courthouse were found two Roman altars, one bearing an illegible inscription, the other plain.

Easting:
2511

Northing:
6386

Grid Reference:
NZ25116386

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1470 >> J. Hodgson, 1812, Picture of Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. 2, 304 J. Sykes, 1833, Local Records, II, 51-52 J.C. Bruce, 1851, The Roman Wall, pp. 127-9 G.R.B. Spain, 1930, Newcastle upon Tyne Fort, Northumberland County History, XIII, pp. 502, 545, nos. 5, 6