Benwell, Condercum Fort, Altar to Antenociticus

HER Number:
5276

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Benwell, Condercum Fort, Altar to Antenociticus

Place:
Benwell

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Religion or Ritual

Site Type: Broad:
Religious Structural Object

Site Type: Specific:
Altar

General Period:
Roman

Specific Period:
C2

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Altar in three fragments. The lowest one was found in 1862 in the Temple of Antenociticus (HER 5266), the upper two in 1904 in house foundations c.640 metres south-east of the temple. The altar was broken either when the temple was destroyed or during stone robbing in modern times. Deposited in the Black Gate. DEO AN(T)ENOCITICUS/SACRUM/COH(ORS) I VA(N)GION(UM)/QUIB(US) PRAE EST/ […]C(IUS) CASSI(ANUS P)RAEF(ECTUS)/U(OTUM) S(OLUIT) L(IBENS) M(ERITO) "Sacred to the god Antenociticus: the First Cohort of Vangiones, under the command of … Cassianus, prefect, willingly and deservedly fulfilled its vow". 20 x 27 inches. RIB 1328.

Easting:
2171

Northing:
6467

Grid Reference:
NZ21716467

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5276 >> Bruce, 1862, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, VI, p 153-5 E.J. Phillips, 1977, Corpus Signororum Imperii Romani, Great Britain Vol 1, no. 230, p81, in Corbridge's Hadrian's Wall East of the North Tyne R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, Roman Inscriptions of Britain I, Inscriptions in Stone, p 436 no. 1328