R. G. Collingwood and R. P. Wright, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain I: Inscriptions on Stone. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965. Pp. XXXIV + 790, 19 Plates and numerous text-figures. £12 12s.

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Roman Roadworks near Vindolanda and theCohors I Tungrorum

“… 69 For the original reading, see RIB I, 2313. See the full account by Maxwell 1983, 379–85, who notes that E. Birley 1966, 230, had already argued that the milestone was Antonine, before the two pieces into which it had broken were reunited in 1971; Wright and Hassall 1973, 336–7 have the revised text, summarised in RIB I 2 , 2313, p. 800. On Cornelius Priscianus, cf.…”