Wallsend vicus, Roman temple or shrine

HER Number:
813

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Wallsend vicus, Roman temple or shrine

Place:
Wallsend

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific:
Temple

General Period:
Roman

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Implied Evidence

Description:
It is suggested that there may have been a temple or shrine near the south-west corner of the fort. This statement is based on the discovery of an altar (HER no. 814), published and illustrated by Bruce, and located by Bruce and MacLauchlan. The altar was found "lying on the ground surrounded by a ring of twelve stones. Each stone was about one foot high and eight or ten inches broad: all twelve stones were roughly dressed. Coins were found under the altar and under several of the stones...". This account is more detailed than MacLauchlan's, but no original source is given.

Easting:
3001

Northing:
6585

Grid Reference:
NZ30016585

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 813 >> J.C. Bruce, 1851, The Roman Wall, p. 115 and pl. H. MacLauchlan, 1858, Memoir of a Survey of the Roman Wall p. 7 n. 1 G.R.B. Spain, ed. 1930, Inscribed and Sculptured Stones, Wallsend, Northumberland County History, XIII, p. 542 no. 4 P.T. Bidwell, N. Holbrook & M.E. Snape, 1991, The Roman Fort at Wallsend and its Environs, p. 3 no. 6