Wallsend vicus, Roman dedication slab
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
Roman 43 to 410
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
429670
Northing
565820
Grid Reference
NZ429670565820
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
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