Denton, Roman building-stone

HER Number:
1271

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 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:
19

Northing:
65

Grid Reference:
NZ1965

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1271 >> C. Roach Smith, 19th century, Collectanea Antiqua, Vol. II, 196, pl. xlviii.8 Gentleman's Magazine, 1851, XXXVI, 386 R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 1369