Wallsend vicus, Roman altar
Wallsend vicus, Roman altar
HER Number
819
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Wallsend vicus, Roman altar
Place
Wallsend
Map Sheet
NZ26NE
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
An altar (17 x 36 inches), on a socketed base (24 x 6 inches), was found in 1892 in garden 20, belonging to Mr Arnott, in the newly made Wallsend allotments west of Wallsend Fort. These allotments were more precisely described as in front of Philiphaugh, c. 475 metres west of the fort. An inscription reads: I(oui) O(ptimo) M(aximo) / coh(ors) IIII Lin / gonum eq(uitata) / aii attendit / Iul(ius) Honor / atus c(enturio) leg(ionis) II / Aug(ustae) u(otum) s(oluit) l(ibens) m(erito); "To Jupiter, Best and Greatest, the Fourth Cohort of Lingonians, part-mounted, under the command of Julius Honoratus, centurion of the Second Legion Augusta, willingly and deservedly fulfilled its vow".
Easting
429580
Northing
565710
Grid Reference
NZ429580565710
Sources
<< HER 819 >> Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 1893, Exhibited, 2, V (for 1891-2), 164-6
F. Haverfield, 1894, A New Altar from Wallsend dedicated to Jupiter, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XVI, 76-80
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 1907, 3, II (for 1905-06), 279
G.R.B. Spain, ed. 1930, Inscribed and Sculptured Stones, Wallsend, Northumberland County History, XIII, p. 541 no. 1
R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 1299
P.T. Bidwell, N. Holbrook & M.E. Snape, 1991, The Roman Fort at Wallsend and its Environs, p. 4 no. 14
F. Haverfield, 1894, A New Altar from Wallsend dedicated to Jupiter, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XVI, 76-80
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 1907, 3, II (for 1905-06), 279
G.R.B. Spain, ed. 1930, Inscribed and Sculptured Stones, Wallsend, Northumberland County History, XIII, p. 541 no. 1
R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 1299
P.T. Bidwell, N. Holbrook & M.E. Snape, 1991, The Roman Fort at Wallsend and its Environs, p. 4 no. 14