Wallsend vicus, Roman dedication slab

HER Number:
824

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Wallsend vicus, Roman dedication slab

Place:
Wallsend

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE

Class:
Commemorative

Site Type: Broad:
Commemorative Stone

Site Type: Specific:
Dedication Stone

General Period:
Roman

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Part of a slab found before 1732 and seen by Horsley at Cousin's House (later Carville Hall) just west of Wallsend fort. Now lost. An inscription read: ...) VIVVS / ...) VIC(...) / ...)s(oluit (?)(.) "...fulfilled..."

Easting:
2967

Northing:
6582

Grid Reference:
NZ29676582

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 824 >> J. Horsley, 1732, Britannia Romana, 1974 ed., p. 208 J.C. Bruce, 1875, Lapidarium Septentrionale, no. 9 G.R.B. Spain, ed. 1930, Inscribed and Sculptured Stones, Wallsend, Northumberland County History, XIII, 543 no. 13 R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 1306 P.T. Bidwell, N. Holbrook & M.E. Snape, 1991, The Roman Fort at Wallsend and its Environs, p. 5 no. 18