Benwell, Condercum Fort, Altar

HER Number:
5297

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Benwell, Condercum Fort, Altar

Place:
Benwell

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Religion or Ritual

Site Type: Broad:
Religious Structural Object

Site Type: Specific:
Altar

General Period:
Roman

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Altar, 5 x 8 inches with plain sides, found in, or before 1789 in north part of Benwell Fort, possibly on site of a temple. Now at Society of Antiquaries, London. DEO M/ARTI LENU/ANUS U(OTUM) S(OLUIT). 'To the god Mars, Lenuanus fulfilled his vow'.

Easting:
216

Northing:
647

Grid Reference:
NZ216647

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5297 >> R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, Roman Inscriptions of Britain I, Inscriptions in Stone, p 441 no. 1332 M.J.T. Lewis, 1966, Temples in Roman Britain, p 120 J. Brand, 1789, A History of Newcastle upon Tyne, p 606 C. Bruce, 1853, Handbook to the Roman Wall, second edition, p112 M.J.T. Lewis, 1966, Temples in Roman Britain, p 120 J. Brand, 1789, A History of Newcastle upon Tyne, p 606 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