Wallsend vicus, Roman dedication slab
Wallsend vicus, Roman dedication slab
HER Number
823
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Wallsend vicus, Roman dedication slab
Place
Wallsend
Map Sheet
NZ26NE
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Findspot
Site Type: Specific
Grave Slab
General Period
ROMAN
Specific Period
Roman 43 to 410
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
Fragments of a slab, 13 x 20 inches, originally about 13 x 23 inches, with die 10 x 2 inches, found in 1892 in the allotments at Philiphaugh west of the fort. To the right of a figure of Mercury stands a cock on an altar, to his left a goat. An inscription reads: D(eo) M(ercurio) (...) DIA / NE; (... "To the god Mercury..."
Easting
429500
Northing
565700
Grid Reference
NZ429500565700
Sources
<< HER 823 >> F. Haverfield, 1893, 2, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, V (for 1891-2), 187 and fig.
R. Blair, 1895, Roman Inscriptions etc. Wallsend,Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 2, VI (for 1893-4), pl. opp. 138
G.R.B. Spain, ed. 1930, Inscribed and Sculptured Stones, Wallsend, Northumberland County History, XIII, 542 no. 5
R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 1304
E.J. Phillips, 1977, Great Britain, Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani, Vol. I Fasc I, no. 203
P.T. Bidwell, N. Holbrook & M.E. Snape, 1991, The Roman Fort at Wallsend and its Environs, p. 5 no. 17
R. Blair, 1895, Roman Inscriptions etc. Wallsend,Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 2, VI (for 1893-4), pl. opp. 138
G.R.B. Spain, ed. 1930, Inscribed and Sculptured Stones, Wallsend, Northumberland County History, XIII, 542 no. 5
R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 1304
E.J. Phillips, 1977, Great Britain, Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani, Vol. I Fasc I, no. 203
P.T. Bidwell, N. Holbrook & M.E. Snape, 1991, The Roman Fort at Wallsend and its Environs, p. 5 no. 17