Newcastle, Clavering Place, Roman building-stone

HER Number:
1442

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Clavering Place, Roman building-stone

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Commemorative

Site Type: Broad:
Commemorative Stone

Site Type: Specific:
Dedication Stone

General Period:
Roman

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Building-stone, 13.5 x 10 x 2.5 inches, found in 1864 in Clavering Place within the area once occupied by the White Friars Friary. Inscribed: coh(ors) I Th/racum "The First Cohort of Thracians (built this)". It has been suggested that this Cohort may well have been in garrison in Newcastle.

Easting:
249

Northing:
638

Grid Reference:
NZ249638

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1442 >> 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, no. 12, pp. 506, 546 E. Birley, 1937, Centurial Stones from the Vallum west of Denton Burn: Appendix, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XIV, 238-9 R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, no. 1323 E.J. Phillips, 1977, Great Britain, Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani, Vol. I Fasc I, no. 279