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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
With the upper part of the gable and the rest of the stone below the text broken off.
Aurelius Herculanus β Horseman
D(is) M(anibus) / Aurelius Hercula/nus aeques vixit an/nos XXVIII coniux f/aciendum curavi/t
βTo the spirits of the departed; Aurelius Herculanus, trooper, lived 28 years; his wife had this set up.β
Site Name: Caerleon, Newport: Gwent
Notes: found in the Roman burial area approximately a third of a mile north-east of Caerleon in the second cutting of the Monmouth branch of the South Wales Railway
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