Benwell, Condercum Fort, Building stone

HER Number:
5313

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Benwell, Condercum Fort, Building stone

Place:
Benwell

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Architecture

Site Type: Broad:
Architectural Fragment

Site Type: Specific:
Architectural Fragment

General Period:
Roman

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Found at fort before 1789. Slightly burnt on front and upper left corner has broken off. 15 x 10 inches. LEG(IO) II AUG(USTA) on standard: LEG(IO) II 'The Second Legion Augusta (built this). The Second Legion'. Central panel edged with a border. Carving has a vexillum with pointed shaft, hand grip fringed banner. Flanked to left by Capricorn and to right by Pegasus (emblem of second legion). RIB 1341. CSIR 280. British Museum A.O.250

Easting:
216

Northing:
647

Grid Reference:
NZ216647

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5313 >> Spain & Bosanquet, Northumberland County History, xiii, 558, no 22 with fig R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, Roman Inscriptions of Britain I, Inscriptions in Stone, p 444, no 1341 E.J. Phillips, 1977, Corpus Signororum Imperii Romani, Great Britain Vol 1, no. 280, in Corbridge's Hadrian's Wall East of the North Tyne J. Brand, 1789, A History of Newcastle upon Tyne, p 606 Le Keux, 1857, Antiquaries Journal, xiv (1857), p 359 with pl