Wallsend vicus, Roman sculpture fragment

HER Number:
829

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Wallsend vicus, Roman sculpture fragment

Place:
Wallsend

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE

Class:
Religion or Ritual

Site Type: Broad:
Religious Structural Object

Site Type: Specific:
Sculpture

General Period:
Roman

Specific Period:
C2/C3

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
The fragment of a bust was recorded by Brand as having been seen, before 1789, in a field west of the fort at Wallsend, and between Stotes Houses and the River Tyne. Now lost. It is not known whether the bust was in the round or in relief, whether it was really a bust and not a head broken from a statue and whom it represented, but in view of its findspot it may have been a Mercury - like HER no. 822, part of which was probably found in this vicinity.

Easting:
29

Northing:
65

Grid Reference:
NZ2965

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 829 >> J. Brand, 1789, History of Newcastle, I, 605 E.J. Phillips, 1977, Great Britain, Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani, Vol. I Fasc I no. 314 P.T. Bidwell, N. Holbrook & M.E. Snape, 1991, The Roman Fort at Wallsend and its Environs, p. 5 no. 22