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Antonine Wall Bridgeness Commemorative Stone

Commemorative inscription on a sandstone slab, recording the Roman army’s dedication of the building work on the easternmost part of the Antonine Wall to their Emperor, from Bridgeness, West Lothian, 142 – 143 AD

“For the Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, father of his country, the Second Legion Augusta built (this work) for a distance of 4,652 paces.”

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