White Friars Tower, Roman altar
White Friars Tower, Roman altar
HER Number
1438
District
Newcastle
Site Name
White Friars Tower, Roman altar
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Findspot
Site Type: Specific
Altar
General Period
ROMAN
Specific Period
Roman 43 to 410
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
An altar, 10 x 16 inches, found in 1843 built into the Whitefriars Tower. Inscribed: D(e)o / Siluano / G(aius) Val(erius) / -... To the god Silvanus Gaius Valerius (set this up). G.B. Richardson says quite clearly that the altar was found in the bed of an old watercourse 10-11 feet below the floor of the tower, "almost wholly shorn of its inscription", and its top broken off during the digging.
Easting
424840
Northing
563660
Grid Reference
NZ424840563660
Sources
<< HER 1438 >> R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 1321
G.B. Richardson, 1844, Account of the Discovery of some Roman Relics in the Western Suburbs, Archaeologia Aeliana, 1, III, 148-9
Archaeologia Aeliana, 1865, Roman Stone found at the White Friars, Newcastle, 2, VI, 231
G.R.B. Spain, 1930, Inscribed and Sculptured Stones Newcastle, Northumberland County History, XIII, p. 545 no. 8
Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, BHP, 1968, Altar found 1843 - possible temple site?
G.B. Richardson, 1844, Account of the Discovery of some Roman Relics in the Western Suburbs, Archaeologia Aeliana, 1, III, 148-9
Archaeologia Aeliana, 1865, Roman Stone found at the White Friars, Newcastle, 2, VI, 231
G.R.B. Spain, 1930, Inscribed and Sculptured Stones Newcastle, Northumberland County History, XIII, p. 545 no. 8
Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, BHP, 1968, Altar found 1843 - possible temple site?