Wallsend, Roman building-stone
Wallsend, Roman building-stone
HER Number
1405
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Wallsend, Roman building-stone
Place
Wallsend
Map Sheet
NZ26NE
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
A building-stone seen before 1732 by Horsley; now lost. Inscribed: coh(ortis) X / c(enturia) Iustini / Secundi “From the tenth cohort the century of Justinius Secundus (built this)”.
Easting
429000
Northing
565000
Grid Reference
NZ429000565000
Sources
<< HER 1405 >> J. Horsley, 1732, Britannia Romana, p. 208
G.R.B. Spain, 1930, Inscribed and Sculptured Stones, Wallsend, Northumberland County History, XIII, p. 543 no. 12
R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 1312
G.R.B. Spain, 1930, Inscribed and Sculptured Stones, Wallsend, Northumberland County History, XIII, p. 543 no. 12
R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 1312