3D surface model of putative Roman Centurial Stone from Hadrian’s Wall, now located on a window sill of St Andrew’s Church, Heddon on the Wall. No inscription can be read.
It is more than likely the stone referred to by Heddon on the Wall historian Cadwallader Bates:
“My attention has recently been called by the Rev. C. Bowlker to a stone in the byre of the vicarage, about 15 inches long and 9 inches high. This is evidently a centurial stone. The inscription is gone.“
Roman Inscriptions of Britain (RIB 1387) relates it to one of two found in the vicarage in 1807, and with a partial inscription, IV L R V F, “The century of Julius Rufus (built this)”.
The two stones were reported donated to the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle in 1823 but are now missing.
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