South Shields Roman Fort, Samian dish

HER Number:
1896

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
South Shields Roman Fort, Samian dish

Place:
South Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Container

Site Type: Broad:
Container by Function

Site Type: Specific:
Dish

General Period:
Roman

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
A Samian dish "of large size and nearly perfect, showing the potter's mark, and a scratched inscription, was found when excavating for the cellar of a house at a depth of seven feet below the surface. Higher up the rising ground were possible wall foundations.

Easting:
3636

Northing:
6795

Grid Reference:
NZ36366795

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1896 >> Tyne and Wear Museums, 2001, Hadrian Primary School, Baring Street, South Shields, Archaeological Assessment, appendix 1 South Shields Gazette & Daily Telegraph, 20 February 1875 R. E. Hooppell, 1878, On the discovery and exploratrion of Roman remains at South Shields, Natural History Transactions Northumbria, Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne, VII