South Shields vicus, pine-cone funerary monument
South Shields vicus, pine-cone funerary monument
HER Number
899
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
South Shields vicus, pine-cone funerary monument
Place
South Shields
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
Settlement
Site Type: Specific
Death Burial or Funerary Object
General Period
ROMAN
Specific Period
Roman 43 to 410
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
A slightly tapering polygonal shaft, broken at the bottom, culminating in a large pine-cone. Found in 1875, while making new roads on the Lawe, "in the burial ground of the South Shields Station". "That the monument is funerary is suggested not only by the pine-cone finial, but by its general resemblance in shape to the so-called Serpent Stone at Maryport, which is a gravestone consisting of a polygonal shaft surmounted by a head". A gold coin was found with the pine-cone.
Easting
436400
Northing
567500
Grid Reference
NZ436400567500
Sources
<< HER 899 >> JC. Bruce, 1880, On the recent discoveries in the Roman Camp on the Lawe... Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, X, 250
E.J. Phillips, 1977, Great Britain, Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani, Vol. I Fasc. I No. 251
P.T. Bidwell, 1988, The Civilian Settlement...of the Roman Fort at South Shields, No. 30
E.J. Phillips, 1977, Great Britain, Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani, Vol. I Fasc. I No. 251
P.T. Bidwell, 1988, The Civilian Settlement...of the Roman Fort at South Shields, No. 30