Context (Display)
Prior to being transferred to MAA from the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1954, they were displayed 'not in the Fitzwilliam Museum, but on the portico outside it (to the right of the door).' (see CHER No. 05542)
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Author: Imogen Gunn

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Description (Physical description)
Milestone bearing two superimposed texts, both dating from AD 306-7.
Event Date
Author: maa

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Context (Related Documents)
Old exhibition label in archive.

Event Date
Author: maa

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Description (Inscription)
Primary text (I)MP (CAES) FLA VAL CO(N)STANTINO PIO NOB CAES (?) DIVI (CONST)ANTI A(V)GVSTI P(II) (FILIO..
Secondary text IMP CAES FLAVI < ucontd.> u 1954.50 b contd V LE CONST ANTI NO PIO NOB CA ES (ARI..
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (Analysis)
In his letter to The Gentleman's Magazine, Biden notes that 'Professor Clarke, of this University... politely undertook to decypher the imperfect characters and ascertained that it was erected in the reign of the Emperor Constantine, by the fifth legion, and dedicated to his son, Constantinus Pius, to whom many memorials of this nature were inscribed, in various parts of the Roman Empire' (p. 524).
Event Date 1812
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (Field collection)
Found with 1954.50.2 A in 1812 by the Roman road from Cambridge to Godmanchester, three miles N.W. of Cambridge.
Event Date 1812
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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Context (Field collection)
According to C.C. Babington, the two milestones (1954.50.2 A-B) were found 'by Mr Henry Lloyd Biden, at that time a student of Trinity Hall, projecting from a bank near the present high road, at a distance of nearly three miles from Cambridge, in October 1812' (p. 42).
Event Date 10/1812
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (References)
Biden, Henry Lloyd. (1813). 'Roman Antiquities'. The Gentleman's Magazine. vol. 83, pt. 1. p. 524, Pl. II.6
Event Date 1813
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (References)
Hubner, Ernst (ed.). (1873). Corpus inscriptionum Latinarum. Vol. VII: Inscriptiones Britanniae Latinae. p. 209, No. 1154.
Event Date 1873
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Scarth, P. (1877). 'On the Roman Milliaries found in Britain.' The Archaeological Journal, 34. p. 398
Event Date 1877
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Babington, Charles Cardale. (1883). Ancient Cambridgeshire. Cambridge: Cambridge Antiquarian Society. pp. 40-41 (illustrated, no. 1)
Event Date 1883
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (References)
Taylor, M.V., & Collingwood, R.G. (1922). 'Roman Britain in 1923'. Journal of Roman Studies, 12. p. 282
Event Date 1922
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Fox, Cyril. (1923). Archaeology of the Cambridge Region. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 168
Event Date 1923
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
For more bibliographic references, see Collingwood and Wright.
Event Date 1965
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (Analysis)
Collingwood and Wright translate the inscription as: 'For the Emperor Caesar Flavius Valerius Constintinus Pius, most noble Caesar, son of the deified Constantius Augustus Pius'.
Event Date 1965
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Collingwood, R.G. and Wright, R.P. (1965). The Roman Inscriptions of Britain. Vol 1: Inscriptions on Stone. Clarendon Press. pp. 697-698, Number 2237.
Event Date 1965
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Wilkes, J.J. and Elrington, C.R. (eds). (1978). A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely. Vol. VII: Roman Cambridgeshire. Victoria History of the Counties of England. pp. 28-29.
Event Date 1978
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Taylor, Alison. (1997). 'South West Cambridgeshire'. Archaeology of Cambridgeshire. Vol. 1. p. 53.
Event Date 1997
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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Description (Physical description)
Limestone milestone, oval in section.
Event Date 24/4/2014
Author: maa

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Context (Amendments / updates)
The CHER record for the two Roman milestones (CHER No. 05542) notes:
'Found Oct 1812. A cylindrical stone 33in long by 12 1/2 in diameter "projecting from a bank near the high road between Cambridge and Huntingdon, nearly 3 miles from the former town...: with the assistance of Mr. Harding of Pembroke College I succeeded in restoring: IMP CAES FLAVI (CONST)ANTINO V LEG CONSTANTINO PIO NOB CAES"
Another fragment, but of a different stone, found a few weeks later adjoining, only legible letters being LISSIMUS CAESAR. Also many fragments of pottery. (Sited from above description in area centred at TL/4090/6200).'
Unfortunately, there was not specific reference for either of these entries.
Event Date 15/2/2017
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (Amendments / updates)
The Source field has been updated to include Henry Lloyd Biden as the collector.
Event Date 2/11/2022
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)