Denton, Roman building-stone
Denton, Roman building-stone
HER Number
1270
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 found in, or shortly before, 1851 and thereupon built into a garden wall at West Denton; presumably from the Wall near milecastle 8. Now lost. Inscribed: c(enturia) )) Iuli Pri((...)) "The century of Julius Pri((... (built this)".
Easting
418980
Northing
565910
Grid Reference
NZ418980565910
Sources
<< HER 1270 >> R.O. Heslop, 1905, A Roman Centurial Stone from West Denton, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 3, I (for 1903-04), 286-7
G.R.B. Spain, 1930, Inscribed and Sculptured Stones, Northumberland County History, XIII, 561 no. 8
R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 1368
G.R.B. Spain, 1930, Inscribed and Sculptured Stones, Northumberland County History, XIII, 561 no. 8
R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 1368