Benwell, Condercum Fort, Altar

HER Number:
5307

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, 16 x 31 inches, with plain sides; found in 1751 while building the Newcastle to Carlisle road through Benwell Fort. Now at the Society of Antiquaries, London. LAMIIS / TRIBUS 'To the three Witches'. RIB 1331. CSIR 1.1 221.

Easting:
216

Northing:
647

Grid Reference:
NZ216647

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5307 >> R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, Roman Inscriptions of Britain I, Inscriptions in Stone, p 441 1331 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 Tyne and Wear Museums, 1991, The Roman Fort at Benwell and its Environs, Survey of extent and preservation of archaeological deposits J. Brand, 1789, A History of Newcastle upon Tyne, p 607 C. Bruce, 1867, Handbook to the Roman Wall, third edition, p 406 Spain & Bosanquet, Northumberland County History, xiii, 555, no 9 with pl