South Shields vicus, Roman tombstone

HER Number:
901

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
South Shields vicus, Roman tombstone

Place:
South Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Tomb

Site Type: Specific:
Tombstone

General Period:
Roman

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Fragment of a gabled tombstone found shortly before 1732 at South Shields. This was noted and drawn by Horsley before being lost. Its inscription reads: D(is) M(anibus); ... To the spirits of the departed...

Easting:
36

Northing:
67

Grid Reference:
NZ3667

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 901 >> J. Horsley, 1732, Britannia Romana, 1974 ed., pp. 194 N54 III, 287 R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 1066