Benwell Fort (Condercum), Building stone
Benwell Fort (Condercum), Building stone
HER Number
5314
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Benwell Fort (Condercum), Building stone
Place
Benwell
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Commemorative
Site Type: Broad
Commemorative Stone
Site Type: Specific
Centurial Stone
General Period
ROMAN
Specific Period
Roman 43 to 410
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
421600
Northing
564700
Grid Reference
NZ421600564700
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
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