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'Transcript of a Letter from Doctor Christopher Hunter of Durham to Roger Gale, Esq, concerning a Roman station near South Shields at the mouth of the River Tyne in the Bishoprick of Durham, and also two Inscriptions found at Lanchester in that County'. Fols. 3r-5v.

Reference code
SAL/10/09/02
Title
'Transcript of a Letter from Doctor Christopher Hunter of Durham to Roger Gale, Esq, concerning a Roman station near South Shields at the mouth of the River Tyne in the Bishoprick of Durham, and also two Inscriptions found at Lanchester in that County'. Fols. 3r-5v.
Date
17 May 1735
19 June 1735
Level of description
Item
Scope and content
Letter dated 17 May 1735. Read 19 June 1735: Minute Book II, pp. 84-7 (SAL/02/002/081). Also transcribed in ‘Register of Antiquitys’, pp.4-9 (SAL/10/10/002).
References added, by a later hand, to Philosophical Transactions, nos. 474 (1744), 482 (1747), relate to other inscriptions copied by Dr Hunter.
Creator
Hunter, Christopher (1675-1757), physician and antiquary
Gale, Roger (1672-1744), scholar and antiquary