SHEALES-SOUTH, (Durham) or SHIELDS-SOUTH, on the S, side of Tine by Tinmouth-Bar, is very eminent for its salt-pans, above 200 in number, where great quantities of salt are boiled and made; and on both banks of the r. are many convenient houses for the entertainment of seamen and colliers, most of the Newcastle coal-fleet having their station here usually, till their coals are brought down in the barges and lighters from Newcastle. A very large, fair, Roman altar, of one entire stone, was found some years ago near this place, and put into the hands of the learned Dr. Lister; who, in his account of it sent to the royal-society, says it was erected to Marcus-Aurelius-Antoninus Caracalla, when he took upon him the command of the empire and the whole army (after his father's death at York) for his safe return from his successful expedition against the Scots and Picts.