Benwell Fort (Condercum), Building stone
Benwell Fort (Condercum), Building stone
HER Number
5315
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, 16 x 9 inches, found before 1873 in Benwell fort. Now [1941] in Denton Hall stable. LEG(IONIS) II C/OH(ORS) IIII 'From the Second Legion the fourth cohort (built this). RIB 1343.
Easting
421600
Northing
564700
Grid Reference
NZ421600564700
Sources
<< HER 5315 >> R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, Roman Inscriptions of Britain I, Inscriptions in Stone, p 444, no. 1343
E.J. Phillips, 1977, Corpus Signororum Imperii Romani, Great Britain Vol 1, no. 283? in Corbridge's Hadrian's Wall East of the North Tyne
1927, Journal Roman Studies, xvii (1927) 218 LS 38
C. Bruce, 1867, Handbook to the Roman Wall, third edition, p116
Spain & Bosanquet, Northumberland County History, xiii, 559, no 24
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. 283? in Corbridge's Hadrian's Wall East of the North Tyne
1927, Journal Roman Studies, xvii (1927) 218 LS 38
C. Bruce, 1867, Handbook to the Roman Wall, third edition, p116
Spain & Bosanquet, Northumberland County History, xiii, 559, no 24
Stevens, 1948, Archaeologia Aeliana, series 4, xxvi, (1948), p 38, n.59