Walbottle, Roman building-stone
Walbottle, Roman building-stone
HER Number
1275
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Walbottle, Roman building-stone
Place
Walbottle
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, 8.5 x 8.5 inches, found in 1794 built into the wall of a stable at Walbottle. Inscribed: c(enturia) p(rimi) p(ili) "The century of the senior centurion (built this)".
Easting
417000
Northing
566000
Grid Reference
NZ417000566000
Sources
<< HER 1275 >> J.C. Bruce, 1875, Lapidarium Septentrionale, 51
J.C. Bruce, 1857, Catalogue of the Inscribed and Sculptured Roman Stones... Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, I, 240 no. 56
G.R.B. Spain, 1930, Inscribed and Sculptured Stones, Northumberland County History, XIII, 562 no. 4
C.E. Stevens, 1948, The Building of Hadrian's Wall, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XXVI, p. 39 n. 63
J.D. Cowen, 1951, Nugae Epigraphicae,Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 4, XI (for 1946-50), 358-9
R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 1373
J.C. Bruce, 1857, Catalogue of the Inscribed and Sculptured Roman Stones... Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, I, 240 no. 56
G.R.B. Spain, 1930, Inscribed and Sculptured Stones, Northumberland County History, XIII, 562 no. 4
C.E. Stevens, 1948, The Building of Hadrian's Wall, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XXVI, p. 39 n. 63
J.D. Cowen, 1951, Nugae Epigraphicae,Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 4, XI (for 1946-50), 358-9
R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 1373