Denton, Roman building-stone
Denton, Roman building-stone
HER Number
1263
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Denton, Roman building-stone
Place
Denton
Map Sheet
NZ16NE
Class
Commemorative
Site Type: Broad
Commemorative Stone
Site Type: Specific
Centurial Stone
General Period
ROMAN
Specific Period
Roman 43 to 410
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
Building-stone, 10 x 8 x 1.5 inches, found in 1936 beside HER ref. 1265 on the north side of the south mound of the Vallum west of Denton Burn, south of turret 7b. Inscribed: c(enturia) Tu((lli)) The century of Tullius ((built this)).
Easting
419860
Northing
565380
Grid Reference
NZ419860565380
Sources
<< HER 1263 >> R.G. Collingwood, 1937, Roman Britain in 1936: Inscriptions, Journal Roman studies, XXVII, 248
G.R.B. Spain, 1937, Centurial Stone, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 4, VII (for 1935-36), 159
I.A. Richmond & E.B. Birley, 1937, Centurial Stones from the Vallum west of Denton Burn, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XIV, pp. 227, 232-3, fig. 3
R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain,1361
G.R.B. Spain, 1937, Centurial Stone, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 4, VII (for 1935-36), 159
I.A. Richmond & E.B. Birley, 1937, Centurial Stones from the Vallum west of Denton Burn, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XIV, pp. 227, 232-3, fig. 3
R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain,1361