Wallsend, Roman dedication slab

HER Number:
825

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Wallsend, Roman dedication slab

Place:
Wallsend

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE NZ36NW

Class:
Commemorative

Site Type: Broad:
Commemorative Stone

Site Type: Specific:
Inscription

General Period:
Roman

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Fragment of a thin slab 7 x 11 x 1.5 inches, found about 1896 at Wallsend.An inscription reads: ...)ICO / (...) PRAE / (...)VM. Collingwood tentatively suggested a dedication to Mars Cocidius by a prefect of the Fourth Cohort of Lingonians. Wright felt that hardly enough remained to substantiate this.

Easting:
29

Northing:
65

Grid Reference:
NZ2965

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 825 >> Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 1897, Donation to the Museum, 2, VII (for 1895-6), 298 G.R.B. Spain, ed. 1930, Inscribed and Sculptured Stones, Wallsend, Northumberland County History, XIII, 542-3 no. 7 R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 1307 P.T. Bidwell, N. Holbrook & M.E. Snape, 1991, The Roman Fort at Wallsend and its Environs, p. 5 no. 19