More information : "At Springhead sections of the Roman road
were seen in excavations for the arterial road: and near here,
at SHORNE WARREN, was found in 1907 the rough inscribed roadstone
now in Maidstone Museum. On this stone Mr. R. G. Collingwood has
... supplied the following note:- 'It is ahbout 47" high by
about 23" wide. Haverfield & Cheesman's reading [auth. (2)]
is correct as to text, but I have been able to detect a few more
letters by making a contact drawing eliminating the modern
inscription'."
... The inscription reads INSERT GRAPHICAL MATERIAL
D(ominus n(ostris) [F]la(vio) Val(eria) Severo e[t] Gal(erio)
Val(eria) Maximino nob [i] 1(issimis) [Caes(aribus)].
Flavious Severus & Maximin Daia were created Caesars May 305; in
July 306 Constantine I assumed the title of Caesar and Flavius
Severus took that of Augustus: the inscription therefore
falls between these dates. (1)
Add. Refs. (2)
Add. ref. (3)
This Roman milestone was seen in Maidstone Museum. No
information as to its exact find-spot obtained. (4)
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