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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Squared pillar, serving originally as a Roman milestone temp. Maximinus Daia (AD 309-13). Subsequently inverted, and incised o the back with one-line inscription. Roughly rectangular but pointed at the lower end. Broken into six fragments now five, resotred), of which the upper right-hand one has been lost since its discovery. On the back it has a Early-Medieval Christian epitaph, which reads vertically upwards.
Site Name: Port Talbot, Neath Port Talbot
Notes: Found on the eastern outskirts of Port Talbot near an old toll cottage beside the former course of the main road, about 5 miles south-east of Neath. Now in Margam Abbey Museum