
The Bridgeness slab; a Roman commemorative distance slab made of sandstone, with inscription marking the completion of a part of the Antonine Wall by the 2nd legion. Scotland, 142 CE ca. Housed in the National museum of Scotland, nr. X.FV 27 [2664 x 1008]
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inscription RIB 1.2139 in [https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions/2139](https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions/2139)
>Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) Tito Aelio / Hadri(ano) Antonino / Aug(usto) Pio p(atri) p(atriae) leg(io) II / Aug(usta) per m(ilia) p(assuum) IIII(milia)DCLII / fec(it)
>for emperor caesar Titus Aelius Hadrian Antoninus August Pius, father of the country, the 2nd legion Augusta made this for [a distance of] 4652 paces.
in museum’s site [https://www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-collections/collection-search-results?entry=141406](https://www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-collections/collection-search-results?entry=141406)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeness_Slab](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeness_Slab)
photo by Rebecca Thompson Mike Bishop in [https://www.flickr.com/photos/rebeccateee/4133037847/](https://www.flickr.com/photos/rebeccateee/4133037847/)