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Museum accession no. GLAHM:F.13, also recorded as Canmore 43272, one of two distance slabs found near each other. The inscription (in shorthand form) reads:[I]MP C T AE [H]ADRIANO [A]NTONINO [AV]G PIO P P [VEX L]EG XX VV [PP IIII C]DXI
'For the Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Father of his  Country, a detachment of the Twentieth Valiant and Victorious Legion built 9
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Museum accession no. GLAHM:F.13, also recorded as Canmore 43272, one of two distance slabs found near each other. The inscription (in shorthand form) reads:[I]MP C T AE [H]ADRIANO [A]NTONINO [AV]G PIO P P [VEX L]EG XX VV [PP IIII C]DXI
'For the Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Father of his Country, a detachment of the Twentieth Valiant and Victorious Legion built 9this) over a distance of 4411 feet.' Found at Old Kirkpatrick, West Dumbartonshire. Donated to the museum in 1695.

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