Benwell, Condercum Fort, Building stone

HER Number:
5314

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:
Building stone found at Benwell and built into a house, where Horsley saw it before 1732, since lost. LEG(IONIS) II AUG(USTAE) COH(ORS) II. 'From the Second Legion Augusta the second cohort (built this). RIB 1342. CSIR 281.

Easting:
216

Northing:
647

Grid Reference:
NZ216647

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5314 >> R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, Roman Inscriptions of Britain I, Inscriptions in Stone, p 444, no. 1342 E.J. Phillips, 1977, Corpus Signororum Imperii Romani, Great Britain Vol 1, no. 281, in Corbridge's Hadrian's Wall East of the North Tyne J. Horsley, 1732, Britannia Romana Spain & Bosanquet, Northumberland County History, xiii, 558, no 23 Stevens, 1948, Archaeologia Aeliana, series 4, xxvi, (1948), p 38, n.59