Benwell, Condercum Fort, Tombstone

HER Number:
5322

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Benwell, Condercum Fort, Tombstone

Place:
Benwell

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Tomb

Site Type: Specific:
Tombstone

General Period:
Roman

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Tombstone, 22 x 30 inches, found in 1938 reused in a Roman building overlying the filled-in ditch immediately west of the Vallum Crossing at Benwell. Now in Museum of Antiquities (1956.5.15A). D(IS) M(ANIBUS) S(ACRUM) D(ECIMUS) IULIU/S Q(UINTI) F(ILIUS) CANDIDUS C(O)HO(RTIS) P(RIMAE) VANGIONUM A(NNORUM) XXXX. 'Sacred to the spirits of the departed: Decimus Julius Candidus, son of Quintus, of the First Cohort of Vangiones, aged 40'. RIB 1350

Easting:
216

Northing:
647

Grid Reference:
NZ216647

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5322 >> R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, Roman Inscriptions of Britain I, Inscriptions in Stone, p 446, no.1350 Tyne and Wear Museums, 1991, The Roman Fort at Benwell and its Environs, Survey of extent and preservation of archaeological deposits 1939, Journal Roman Studies, xxix, p226 1940, Journal Roman Studies, xxx, p186 Wright, 1940, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, ix, (1940), p139