Benwell, Condercum Fort, Dedication Slab

HER Number:
5320

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Benwell, Condercum Fort, Dedication Slab

Place:
Benwell

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Commemorative

Site Type: Broad:
Commemorative Stone

Site Type: Specific:
Dedication Slab

General Period:
Roman

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Parts of the right-hand portion of a dedication slab, of unknown size, found in 1852 while building Benwell Park House. It was destroyed forthwith. …]NIO/…]BI[…]VV/…]I[…]SV/…]AVG[…]E/…A]LAE I AS[TURUM…]OII/…]V/…]I[… '… of (or for) the First Cavalry Regiment of Asturians'. RIB 1348.

Easting:
216

Northing:
647

Grid Reference:
NZ216647

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5320 >> R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, Roman Inscriptions of Britain I, Inscriptions in Stone, p 445, no. 1348 Spain & Bosanquet, Northumberland County History, xiii, 558, no 17