Denton, Roman building-stone

HER Number:
1264

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Denton, Roman building-stone

Place:
Denton

Map Sheet:
NZ16NE

Class:
Architecture

Site Type: Broad:
Architectural Fragment

Site Type: Specific:
Architectural Fragment

General Period:
Roman

Specific Period:
C2

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Building-stone, 9.5 x 8 x 2.75 inches, found in 1934 west of Denton Burn on the south edge of the north mound of the Vallum at the level of the Roman surface, opposite turret 7b. Inscribed: c(enturia) Val(eri) / Fl(avi) The century of Valerius Flavus (built this).

Easting:
1987

Northing:
6540

Grid Reference:
NZ19876540

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1264 >> R.G. Collingwood, 1935, Roman Britain in 1934: Inscriptions, Journal Roman studies, XXV, 224 G.R.B. Spain, 1935, Donations,Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 4, VI (for 1933-34), 337 pl. xvi I.A. Richmond & E.B. Birley, 1937, Centurial Stones from the Vallum west of Denton Burn, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XIV, 227, 233, fig. 4 R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain,1362