Borne milliaire d'Uchaud
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The borne milliaire d'Uchaud, also called the colonne milliaire d'Antonin le Pieux, is a Roman milestone of the 2nd century at Uchaud, in the Gard, France. Its Latin inscription dates it to a restoration of the road carried out under the fourth consulship of Antoninus Pius, that is, in 145 CE.
It has been a classified historical monument since 1912.
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Borne milliaire d'Uchaud
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The milestone stands in the commune of Uchaud, on the northern edge of the Via Domitia, at the crossing of the road coming from Bernis (the RD 107) and the road from Nîmes to Narbonne.
Two other milestones from the territory of Uchaud are recorded in the Carte archéologique.
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Two other milestones from the territory of Uchaud are recorded in the Carte archéologique. One, dated to Claudius (CIL 17-02, 00254), was moved to Bernis before 1877. Five fragments were described in 1853 as serving as a surface for beating laundry at the communal well, and three fragments were seen by Auguste Aurès in 1877. Only two now remain, set in the middle of the small square facing the old municipal school.
The second has no inscription apart from the trace of a last numeral ([VIII]I?, which would indicate nine miles) and would also date from Antoninus Pius (CIL 17-02, 00258). It was found in the cemetery of Uchaud, where it served as a cross support, and has been kept in the archaeological museum of Nîmes since 1850. Auguste Aurès published a monograph on the milestones of the Gard in 1877.
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A milestone is a numbered marker placed on a route to indicate distances to towns or landmarks. A Roman milestone carries inscriptions that indicate its function, so it can often be placed within a reign.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
French steles, milestones and memorials
The Atlas's French steles are a mixed group. A stele is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected as a monument, with text, ornament, or both. Steles were made as grave markers, as government notices and boundary markers, and as memorials to battles. Among the French records are Gaulish steles, funerary steles, Roman milestones and a number of modern memorials.
A milestone is a numbered marker placed on a route to indicate distances to towns or landmarks. In the Roman world a cippus was a low, round or rectangular pedestal set up for purposes such as a milestone or a boundary post, with inscriptions that indicated its function or the area it enclosed. A Roman milestone carries inscriptions that indicate its function, so it can often be placed within a reign.
In Rome cippi marked the limits of the pomerium after the city walls were expanded, the course of aqueducts and of the imperial post; cippi lined up in rows were often numbered, and sometimes carried the name of the magistrate responsible. Roman cippi were made of wood or stone. Stelae were also erected as memorials to battles, and the Gaulish and Roman examples of France sit in that long tradition.
Modern memorials are recorded as stone monuments in the registers, and the Atlas keeps them, but they are not prehistoric.
When visiting, read the inscription, which is the quickest way to tell a Roman milestone from a modern memorial.
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Dated moments in the story
- 1850
Trouvé dans le cimetière d'Uchaud, comme support de croix, il est conservé au musée archéologique de Nîmes depuis 1850. .
Source - 1877
L'un, daté de Claude (CIL 17-02, 00254), a été déplacé à Bernis avant 1877. Sur les 5 fragments décrits en 1853 comme servant de surface de battage du linge au Puits Communal, sur les trois fragments vus par Auguste Aurès en 1877, il n'en reste que deux actuellement, scellés au milieu du petit square face à la...
Source - 1912
La borne est classée au titre des monuments historiques en 1912.
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Where it stands
France
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 43°45′40″ N, 4°16′26″ EFor a GPS or map app: 43.76117, 4.27390
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- Borne miliaire de la Voie Domitienne, détail.jpgDdiepCC BY-SA 4.0
- Borne-milliaire-Voie-Dom-Uchaud-JohnWalsh06.jpgJohn030WalshCC BY-SA 4.0
- Borne-milliaire-Voie-Dom-Uchaud-JohnWalsh.jpgJohn030WalshCC BY-SA 4.0
- Borne milliaire d'Uchaud - 1877.jpgAuguste AurèsPublic domain
- Borne miliaire de la Voie Domitienne.jpgDdiepCC BY-SA 4.0
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
- milliarium in Caveirac (Gard, France)7.3 km N
- Courbessac menhir16 km NE
- Borne milliaire d'Antonin-le-Pieux17 km E
- cip funerari de Meinas27 km NE
- Colonnes de César27 km E
- Fragment de base de mil·liari27 km E
- Statues-menhirs de Collorgues28 km N
- Mil·liari28 km SW
- 2 Roman milliaria in Beaucaire29 km E
- Borne milliaire du château d'Estoublon29 km E
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