Benwell, Condercum Fort, Building stone

HER Number:
5316

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, seen by Horsley before 1732 built into the wall of a house, but since lost. LEG(IONIS) II AUG(USTAE) COH(ORS) X 'From the Second Legion Augusta the tenth cohort (built this)'. RIB 1344.

Easting:
216

Northing:
647

Grid Reference:
NZ216647

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5316 >> R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, Roman Inscriptions of Britain I, Inscriptions in Stone, p 444, no. 1344 E.J. Phillips, 1977, Corpus Signororum Imperii Romani, Great Britain Vol 1, no. 282, in Corbridge's Hadrian's Wall East of the North Tyne C. Bruce, 1867, Handbook to the Roman Wall, third edition, p116 Spain & Bosanquet, Northumberland County History, xiii, 559, no 25 Stevens, 1948, Archaeologia Aeliana, series 4, xxvi, (1948), p 38, n.59 J. Horsley, 1732, Britannia Romana