Tyne and Wear HER(5322): Benwell, Condercum Fort, Tombstone - Details
5322
Newcastle
Benwell, Condercum Fort, Tombstone
Benwell
NZ26SW
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Tomb
Tombstone
Roman
Find
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
216
647
NZ216647
<< 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