Tyne and Wear HER(1400): Wallsend, Roman building-stone - Details
1400
N Tyneside
Wallsend, Roman building-stone
Wallsend
NZ26NE
Architecture
Architectural Fragment
Architectural Fragment
Roman
C2
Find
"Building-stone found before 1732 presumably west of Wallsend and seen by Horsley at Cousin's House. Now lost. Inscribed: coh(ortis) II / c(enturia) Vari / Celeri(s) From the second cohort the century of Varius Celer (built this).
29698
65810
NZ2969865810
<< HER 1400 >> J. Horsley, 1732, Britannia Romana, p. 208
G.R.B. Spain, 1930, Inscribed and Sculptured Stones Wallsend, Northumberland County History, XIII, p. 543 no. 10
R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 1310