Benwell, Condercum Fort, Building stone

HER Number:
5315

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, 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:
216

Northing:
647

Grid Reference:
NZ216647

Lats/Lons:

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