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821


Newcastle and N Tyneside


Wallsend vicus, Roman altar


Wallsend


NZ36NW NZ26NE


Religion or Ritual


Religious Structural Object


Altar


Roman



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Altar, 15 x 32 inches, with plain sides. Found before 1732 at Wallsend, later acquired by Brand, and in 1864 passed as part of the Brand Collection to the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle. An inscription reads:... / ... / Di)dius Seue / rus praef(ectus) s(oluit) l(ibens) m(erito) "... Didius Severus, prefect, willingly and deservedly fulfilled his vow".


30


65


NZ3065



<< HER 821 >> J. Horsley, 1732, Britannia Romana, p. 208 J. Brand, 1789, History of Newcastle, I, 604 n. g R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 1302

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