Borne milliaire, Cenon-sur-Vienne

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The so-called "mileage" terminal of Cenon-sur-Vienne or terminal of the Gare des Tramways is a Gallo-Roman leugary terminal of France.

The Gallo-Roman pillar — 2nd century AD, that is, the period of the High Empire — is a block of cylindrical stone whose end has the shape of a cube. The whole room, having been reused to act as a sarcophagus, is largely ejected. In addition, the mileage includes an inscription on one of these sides. Although this artifact has been redesigned, the characters engraved on one of its faces have remained almost intact and legible.

The station is currently kept in the hall of the town hall of Cenon-sur-Vienne, a commune within the canton of Chauvigny, Châtellerault district, in the Vienne department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.

A section of Gallo-Roman route (or via romana), linking the ancient city of Limonum (present-day town of Poitiers) with that of Cæsarodunum, was highlighted in the town of Cenon-sur-Vienne towards the end of the nineteenth century. At the level of the city of Cenon, this route...