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| roman milestone, Middleton | ||
| civil parish:- | Middleton (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | roman milestone | |
| locality type:- | milestone | |
| coordinates:- | SD62278588 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD6285 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD68 | |
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 BLT45.jpg Inscribed stone:- "M P LIII / SOLO ERUTUM RESTITUIT CUL. MOO[R]E AN~. MDCCCXXXVI" (taken 31.3.2006)  BLT46.jpg mille passus 53 ... (taken 31.3.2006) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 43 8) item:- milliarium |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. "MILLIARIUM" |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "ROMAN MILESTONE APPROXIMATELY 74 METRES TO WEST OF ROAD / / A683 / MIDDLETON / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 75735 / SD6226385883" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Milestone. Roman. Dressed stone. Cylindrical shaft, approx 1,676mm high and 457mm in diameter. East side has inscription: "MP LIII": 53 miles to ? Carlisle. Below it an inscription: "SOLO ERVTVM/RESTITVIT/GVL MOORE/AN MDCCCXXXVI": added by the historian, Dr Lingard, to commemorate its discovery and re-erection by W. Moore. Diagonal scratch marks on west side probably made by ploughs. Scheduled Ancient Monument." |
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| hearsay:- |
Ploughed up, re-erected 1836; the stone has been set up about 100yds from the roman
road? |
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| The lower inscription is added 'Restored from the soil by Giles Moore'. |
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