Benwell, Condercum Fort, Stone Base

HER Number:
5299

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Benwell, Condercum Fort, Stone Base

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:
Base, 5 x 9 inches, with plain sides, found in, or before 1789 in the north part of Benwell Fort. VIT/IR(I)B/US. 'To the Vitires'. There is a figure of a long-tailed quadruped, resembling a sheep. It is neither a rabbit, as suggested by Bruce, nor a hare, as suggested by Keune or Heichelheim. The stone is weathered and the corners chipped. Museum of Antiquities 1965.7.7.

Easting:
216

Northing:
647

Grid Reference:
NZ216647

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5299 >> R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, Roman Inscriptions of Britain I, Inscriptions in Stone, p 442, no. 1336 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, p399 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, 245 J. Haverfield, 1918, Archaeologia Aeliana, Series 3, Vol XV, p40