More information : 1048. Altar, 7 X 14 in. (1/8), found in 1850 built into the
wall of a house lying north of Chester-le-Street fort. Sides plain.
Now in the Black Gate. Drawn by R. G. C., 1924.
CIL vii 454, addit. p. 309. LS 542. J. Bell to C. R. Smith 20 May
1852 (in PSAN<3> viii (1918) 143). Featherstonhaugh AA<1> iv (1855)
292, fig. p. 295. Bruce AA<2> i (1857) 266. McCaul Canad. Jour.<2> x
(1865) 101. Haverfield AA<3> xv (1918) 42. Cat. no. 63.
Deab[u]s Vit(iri)bus VIAS VADRI
'To the goddesses the Vitires. . . .'
4. Interpreted as VADR(A)E for Vedra, the River Wear, McCaul. 3, 4.
Perhaps VIALES ET QVADRIVIAE Hueb. conj. (p. 309). The more likely
solution is that these letters conceal the dedicator's outlandish
Germanic name R. P. W. (1)
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