South Shields Roman Fort, Samian dish
South Shields Roman Fort, Samian dish
HER Number
1896
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
South Shields Roman Fort, Samian dish
Place
South Shields
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Findspot
Site Type: Specific
Dish
General Period
ROMAN
Specific Period
Roman 43 to 410
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
A Samian dish "of large size and nearly perfect, showing the potter's mark, and a scratched inscription, was found when excavating for the cellar of a house at a depth of seven feet below the surface. Higher up the rising ground were possible wall foundations.
Easting
436360
Northing
567950
Grid Reference
NZ436360567950
Sources
<< HER 1896 >> Tyne and Wear Museums, 2001, Hadrian Primary School, Baring Street, South Shields, Archaeological Assessment, appendix 1
South Shields Gazette & Daily Telegraph, 20 February 1875
R. E. Hooppell, 1878, On the discovery and exploratrion of Roman remains at South Shields, Natural History Transactions Northumbria, Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne, VII
South Shields Gazette & Daily Telegraph, 20 February 1875
R. E. Hooppell, 1878, On the discovery and exploratrion of Roman remains at South Shields, Natural History Transactions Northumbria, Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne, VII