Benwell Fort (Condercum), Stone Base
Benwell Fort (Condercum), Stone Base
HER Number
5299
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Benwell Fort (Condercum), Stone Base
Place
Benwell
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
Base, 5 x 9 inches, with plain sides, found in, or before 1789 in the north part of Benwell Fort. VIT/IR(I)B/US. 'To the Vitires'. There is a figure of a long-tailed quadruped, resembling a sheep. It is neither a rabbit, as suggested by Bruce, nor a hare, as suggested by Keune or Heichelheim. The stone is weathered and the corners chipped. Museum of Antiquities 1965.7.7.
Easting
421600
Northing
564700
Grid Reference
NZ421600564700
Sources
<< HER 5299 >> R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, Roman Inscriptions of Britain I, Inscriptions in Stone, p 442, no. 1336
M.J.T. Lewis, 1966, Temples in Roman Britain, p 120
J. Brand, 1789, A History of Newcastle upon Tyne, p 606
C. Bruce, 1853, Handbook to the Roman Wall, second edition, p399
E.J. Phillips, 1977, Corpus Signororum Imperii Romani, Great Britain, Vol 1, no. 230, p81, in Corbridge's Hadrian's Wall East of the North Tyne, 245
J. Haverfield, 1918, Archaeologia Aeliana, Series 3, Vol XV, p40
M.J.T. Lewis, 1966, Temples in Roman Britain, p 120
J. Brand, 1789, A History of Newcastle upon Tyne, p 606
C. Bruce, 1853, Handbook to the Roman Wall, second edition, p399
E.J. Phillips, 1977, Corpus Signororum Imperii Romani, Great Britain, Vol 1, no. 230, p81, in Corbridge's Hadrian's Wall East of the North Tyne, 245
J. Haverfield, 1918, Archaeologia Aeliana, Series 3, Vol XV, p40