Thurmaston Milestone
The Thurmaston milestone is a complete surviving miliarium originally erected on the Fosse Way two miles north of Ratae Corieltauvorum, Thurmaston in Leicestershire, now kept at the Jewry Wall Museum. It has been described as:
Carved out of local limestone, it bears an inscription in honour of the Emperor Hadrian and was probably erected either in preparation for or in commemoration of his visit to Britain in 120 AD. In the Middle Ages it served as the parish boundary marker between Thurmaston and Belgrave. Rediscovered in 1771 it was erected in 1783 as part of an obelisk on Belgrave Gate in what is now Leicester City Centre where it became a noted monument of the east suburb of Leicester. It was later installed in New Walk Museum in 1844 and later in the Jewry Wall Museum.
The inscription reads as follows.
Which in English translates to: