Clavering Place, Roman building-stone
Clavering Place, Roman building-stone
HER Number
1442
District
Newcastle
Site Name
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
Roman 43 to 410
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
424900
Northing
563800
Grid Reference
NZ424900563800
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
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