Bronze rectangular shield centre with circular boss, 312 mm x 235 mm. Probably intended for parade armour rather than serious battle. The bronze has been coated with tin, and decorated by incised and pounced lines. The ground has been formed by scraping off the tin plating. The central boss is decorated with an eagle holding an olive branch and surrounded by a wreath. The border is of 8 panels. In each corner is a figure representing one of the Four Seasons; above is Mars, below a bull, the badge of the 8th Legion. In the margins are 2 legionary standards, and the letters: LEG VIII AVG / * IVL(II) MAGNI IVNI(I) DUBITATI. The shield thus belonged to Junius Dubitatus, who served in the century of Julius Magnus in the Eighth Legion Augustus, in Britain under Hadrian. It is supposed to have been dredged up at, or near, the bar across the Tyne before 1877 with, or close to, HER no. 927. Another source says it was dredged up on the south side of the Tyne at its junction with the sea. This object was bought by Canon Greenwell, and later acquired by the British Museum.

...elegant, bronze left cheekpiece from a helmet of Robinson's Auxiliary Cavalry Type H. Height 190 mm. It was reduced in size after the decoration was incised. Central decoration, pricked out in fine pounced lines, shows a naked male figure standing with a cloak over his shoulders. With his right hand he controls a horse, in his left he holds a spear. This figure represents one of the Dioscuri. Below is a dolphin, above a frieze of leaves. Supposed to have been dredged up at, or near, the bar across the River Tyne before 1877 with, or close to, HER no. 928. Another source says it was dredged up on the south side of the Tyne at its junction with the sea.

Bone scabbard chape of rectangular shape with a raised rib and openwork pelta decoration. 60 mm long x 41 mm wide. The Ordnance Survey quotes from the British Museum Accession Register of 1896: "Found at South Shields about 1877. Purchased from the Rev L Hooppell".

Immediately below (the Lawe) on the sands was Hogshead Well, in later times known as the Roman Well, which was so wantonly destroyed by the levelling of the ballast hills for the North Park extension - thus wrote Hodgson in 1903. In 1805 it had been included in a list of public wells which it was recommended should be opened out and deepened to relieve the water shortage in South Shields. In 1910 Rev. C.E. Adamson noted that in 1896 a well was found at the foot of the Lawe...described by Mr. G.B. Hodgson...as consisting of a circular shaft lined with Roman bricks in an excellent state of preservation, and yielding a regular flow of pure water. It was buried the next year during some operations at the Marine Park.

In 1910 Rev. C.E.Adamson published a note recording the discovery of a well "7.5 feet from the south-east corner of the 'forum' in a line with the southern side" and close to the remains of a wall marked on the plan in Archaeologia Aeliana 2, X, page 250. The well was elliptical in plan, 27 inches x 20 inches., and roughly lined with squared stones to a depth of about 1 yard. When emptied there were traces of a cement bottom and virgin clay beneath - a natural spring of no great capacity.

Black, opaque glass sphere, slightly flatter on one face where the ball has been detached from the rod during manufacture. Measuring 38 mm x 35 mm. Came to the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle in the Blair collection, labelled as found in Cleveland Street in c. 1877 with a mortarium of mid/late Antonine date. J.D. Cowen believed it to be Roman, and identified it as a linen-smoother. Lindsay Allason-Jones reckons it could have had other functions, e.g. grinding medicines or pigments, and states that similar objects, either with handles or bun-shaped, have been found on Viking and medieval sites.

Mrs Ernest Blair, Underhill Road, Cleadon, placed on loan an urn of brick-red unglazed ware found at South Shields apparently of Roman date. Lieut-Colonel Spain explained that this vessel which was 7.5 inches high with two-thirds of the upper rim broken off and missing had been found south of the South Wall of the Cemetery at South Shields on the course of the old Letch on clay about two feet below the modern surface. The Ordnance Survey almost certainly misinterpreted the findspot, suggesting the cemetery in question was that of St. Stephen's, west of the Roman fort, whereas St. Hilda's seems much more likely, and would fit in with the suggested letch to the south. The Ordnance Survey added (in 1952) that Mrs E. Blair, of 9 Underhill Rd, Cleadon, had no recollection of the urn and certainly did not loan it to the Society of Antiquaries.

Two fragments from the pipeclay base of a statuette were found in 1973 in the vicus west of the Roman fort. The base, which measures 39 mm high x 50 mm wide x 3 mm thick, is "in the shape of a hollow truncated pyramid". Its face is inscribed in cursive script: SERVAN DVS C(oloniae) C(laudiae) A(rae) A(grippinensis) FECIT.

In 1976 "a gold solidus of Magnus Maximus, minted in London in 387 A.D., was found on a building-site in Palatine Street. The site lies probably outside the vicus but near a suspected Roman road". This information is attributed to the Shields Gazette, 17 June 1976.

Roman pottery has been recovered on at least two occasions from St. Stephen's churchyard, which lies west of the fort and within the area of the vicus. In 1893 a fragment of samian, bearing the potter's stamp MASCILLIO, was reported to the Society of Antiquaries, and in 1904 R. Blair donated to the Society two fragments, a large amphora handle, and a fragment of samian with traces of a stamp, D------VS.