Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Borne milliaire romaine
Cenon-sur-Vienne, Vienne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Borne milliaire romaine sise dans la cour de la mairie : inscription par arrêté du 26 avril 1938
- Protection dates
- 1938/04/26 : inscrit MH
- Type
- milliaire
- Main period of construction
- Haut-Empire, 2e siècle
- Dates
- 123
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- Sur la route de Cenon-sur-Vienne à Vouneuil-sur-Vienne
- Commune
- Cenon-sur-Vienne
- Département
- Vienne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.77357, 0.53629
- Mérimée reference
- PA00105373
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1592 map "Topographia Aug. Turon Ducatus et confinium Gallia Cestica ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'ouvrage présente un fût cylindrique, terminé par un massif cubique. Cette borne a été creusée en sarcophage, mais la majeure partie de l'inscription subsiste.
English translation
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History
The work presents a cylindrical shaft, terminated by a cubic mass. This boundary stone was hollowed into a sarcophagus, but the greater part of the inscription remains.
Nearby in the register
- Menhir du Vieux-Poitiersmenhir1 mi
- Théâtre gallo-romain (vestiges du)théâtre1 mi
- Château de la Tour d'Oyréchâteau2 mi
- Ancienne commanderie d'Auzoncommanderie2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.