![[ The Cong Burn valley ]](../images/congvall.jpg)
Looking north-west from the site in Church Chare, the Cong Burn is bridged by the viaduct of the main eastern railway from London to Edinburgh. Chester-le-Street high street (Front Street), the back of which runs across the foreground of the picture, more or less approximates to the line of the Roman road from Brough-on-Humber (Petuaria) to Newcastle upon Tyne (Pons Aelius). This is the area of at least part of the civil settlement - on the site of the Co-op building (the redbrick structure on the extreme right) an altar to Vitiris Duihno was found in a Roman well in 1886.
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This page last updated June 29th 1997
