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The other inscribed stone, a miliarium, Or milestone, was found in 1796, in the 
foundations of the north wall of the town. It is inscribed to the Emperor Marcus 
Aurelius Numerianus, who reigned A.D. 283-284, and it is the only inscription to this 
Emperor found in Britain, and they are very rare on the Continent. The reign of 
this unfortunate prince was so short, that it is not extraordinary that so few in- 
scriptions relating to him should remain. There is not one in Horsley’s Britannia 
Romana, and only two in Gruter’s Collection, both found in Spain, and both with 
the addition of ‘‘nobilissimus Cesar.” He was associated with his father, Caius, 
and his brother Carinus, in the empire, A.D. 283-284, and died in the year 284. In one 
of the Spanish inscriptions all three names are given. Vobiscus gives a very high 
character to Numerianus for his virtues and talents, and it is reasonable to suppose 
that the army would readily embrace any opportunity of rendering him honour, 
especially in a branch of the empire which was more particularly under the govern- 
ment of his brother Carinus. (See Archwologia, Vol. xv.—Appendix, plate xxvii., 
fig. 2.) The inscription, as given by Mr. Lysons in the Archeologia, Vol. xv., 
p. 391, Appendix, on plate 27, fig. 2, is as follows :— 
IMP. C 
MAR. AVR 
NVMERIAN 
oO 
R. P. 0. D. 
The first four lines plainly read Imp/(eratore) C(aio) Mar(co) Aur(elio) 
Numeriano, but the last four letters which were very imperfect when the stones 
were first found, are now (1882) quite obliterated. The meaning of these letters 
has been much discussed. ‘‘ Professor Hiibner,” says Mr. Thompson Watkins, 
“suggests that the letters may be Prave. As the letters RP are found in an in- 
scription at Caermarthen, standing for Reipublice, I think it probable that Bono 
has been obliterated from the fourth line, and that the fifth has been originally 
R.P. NATO. This miliary is now in the Museum at Hereford,” and the Rey. Pre- 
bendary Scarth, in his exhaustive paper on ‘‘ Roman Miliaries,” (Archeological 
Journal, Vol. xxxiv., pp. 395-405) states that a miliary with this same inscription 
was found at Uriconium (Wroxeter), and is preserved in the Museum at Shrews- 
bury. 
This miliary was in the possession of the Rev. C. J. Bird at the beginning of 
this century, and was presented by his son-in-law, the Rev. R. L. Brown, to the 
Museum at the Free Library in 1880, where it is now carefully preserved. It has 
been figured in the Archeologia Cambrensis. 
The Roman altar which was found in St. John Street, Hereford, and described 
in our Club Zransactions was removed, without doubt, from Magna. It is a 
monolith, in good preservation. It stands 3ft. 43in. high, 1ft. 5}in. broad, and 1ft. 
deep. It now stands on the stair-case at the Free Library. There are traces still 
of an inscription upon it. The Rey. Prebendary Scarth thought he could trace 
the letters 
* * nov 
and suggested the word ‘‘ Minerva.” 
