Accession No
D 1970.7
Description
Stone altar, roughly rectangular with an arched top and straight sides. Carved inscription within a rectangular frame bordered by sets of sets of parallel lines on front face; reverse, sides and top features rough chip marks. Small notch carved out of top. Inscription reads: 'The First Cohort of Vangiones made (this) under the charge of Julius Paullus, the tribune'
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Northumberland; Risingham
Period
Roman
Source
Trinity College, Cambridge [depositor]; ?Cotton, Robert (Sir) [collector]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
D 1970.7; RIB 1241
Cultural Affliation
Material
Stone
Local Term
Measurements
230mm x 655mm x 770mm
Events
Context (Related Documents)
Bainbrigg, R. British Museum MS. Cotton Julius F. VI f. 327 [310].
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn
Context (References)
Northumberland County History. xv 131 no. 3.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn
Context (References)
Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle upon Tyne Natural History Transactions. 1831-1939, vol. LXXXII.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn
Context (Other)
'Building-stone, seen in 1601 by Bainbrigg at Risingham.' (Collingwood and Wright 1965)
Event Date 1601
Author: maa
Context (References)
Camden, W. (1607). Britannia. ed. 6. p. 662.
Event Date 1607
Author: Imogen Gunn
Context (References)
Horsley, J. (1732). Britannia Romana. p. 236.
Event Date 1732
Author: Imogen Gunn
Context (References)
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (1863). Vii, Inscriptiones Britanniae Latinae, ed. Aemilius Huener. Berline, 1873, 1007.
Event Date 1863
Author: Imogen Gunn
Context (References)
Bruce, J.C. (1870-5). Lapidarium Septentrionale. p. 630.
Event Date 1870
Author: Imogen Gunn
Context (References)
Haverfield. (1911). Transactions of Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society. vol. xi, p. 357.
Event Date 1911
Author: Imogen Gunn
Description (Inscription)
Collingwood and Wright translation: 'The First Cohort of Vangiones made (this) under the charge of Julius Paullus, the tribune.' [See Collingwood and Wright for transcription].
Event Date 1965
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Context (References)
Collingwood, R.G. and Wright, R.P. (1965). The Roman Inscriptions of Britain. Vol 1: Inscriptions on Stone. Clarendon Press: 1965. Number 1241.
Event Date 1965
Author: Imogen Gunn
Description (CMS Description)
Inscribed building-stone put up by the First Cohort of Vangiones.
Event Date 13/10/1993
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Inscribed building-stone. Inscription reads: 'The First Cohort of Vangiones made (this) under the charge of Julius Paullus, the tribune'
Event Date 22/4/2021
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
Stone altar, roughly rectangular with an arched top and straight sides. Carved inscription within a rectangular frame bordered by sets of sets of parallel lines on front face; reverse, sides and top features rough chip marks. Small notch carved out of top. Inscription reads: 'The First Cohort of Vangiones made (this) under the charge of Julius Paullus, the tribune'
Event Date 23/4/2021
Author: Jazmin Hundal
FM:63190
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