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This database lists many of the objects found along the Antonine Wall.

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Distance Slab, Sixth Legion, Kirkintilloch

Kirkintilloch

142 - 180 AD

Hunterian Museum
GLAHM F.2
Sandstone

H 77cm x L 159cm x W 16.5cm

Inscription: IMP CAESARI T AELIO HADRIANO ANTONINO AVG PIO P P VEXILLA LEG VI VIC P F PER M P

Inscription reads: "For the Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Father of his Country, a detachment of the Sixth Victorious Loyal and Faithful Legion [built this] over a distance of... thousand feet."

Found: c.1740.

RIB: 2185.

Context:
'a little bewest Inchbelly Bridge', about a mile N.E. of Kirkintilloch Fort, Eastermains

References: PUBL MACDONALD, G. 1934 PUBL COLLINGWOOD,R.G. and WRIGHT,R.P. 1965 PUBL KEPPIE, L.J.F. 1979 p.12, no.3
Keywords:
GLAHM F.2, distance slab, Sixth Legion, Kirkintilloch, Hunterian Museum, Inchbelly Bridge, Eastermains, sandstone, 2185