South Shields, Herd Sands, Roman patera

HER Number:
912

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
South Shields, Herd Sands, Roman patera

Place:
South Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Container

Site Type: Broad:
Container by Function

Site Type: Specific:
Patera

General Period:
Roman

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
In March 1889 the Free Library Committee of South Shields exhibited at a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, "the base, 110 mm in diameter, with portions of the sides, of a bronze skillet of the Roman period, found on the Herd Sands, South Shields. The bottom is ornamented by several concentric rings...". It was found in the same spot as an inscribed patera (HER no. 911).

Easting:
378

Northing:
673

Grid Reference:
NZ378673

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 912 >> Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 1891, Exhibited, 2, IV (for 1889-90), p. 11 Archaeologia Aeliana, 1892, 2, XV, 370 J.A. Petch, 1925, Roman Durham, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, I, 29 and n. L. Allason-Jones & R. Miket, 1984, The Catalogue of Small Finds from South Shields Roman Fort, Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, Monograph, No. 3.359 P.T. Bidwell, 1988, The Civilian Settlement...of the Roman Fort at South Shields