"At Springhead sections of the Roman road were seen in excavations for the arterial road: and near here, at SHORNE WARREN, was found in 1907 the rough inscribed roadstone now in Maidstone Museum. On this stone Mr. R. G. Collingwood has ... supplied the following note:- 'It is about 47" high by about 23" wide. Haverfield & Cheesman's reading [auth. (2)] is correct as to text, but I have been able to detect a few more letters by making a contact drawing eliminating the modern inscription'." … The inscription reads INSERT GRAPHICAL MATERIAL D(ominus n(ostris) [F]la(vio) Val(eria) Severo e[t] Gal(erio) Val(eria) Maximino nob [i] 1(issimis) [Caes(aribus)]. Flavious Severus & Maximin Daia were created Caesars May 305; in July 306 Constantine I assumed the title of Caesar and Flavius Severus took that of Augustus: the inscription therefore falls between these dates. (1) Add. Refs. (2) Add. Ref. (3) This Roman milestone was seen in Maidstone Museum. No information as to its exact find-spot obtained. (4)

<1> V.C.H., Kent, vol. III, 1932, p. 137. Illus. (OS Card Reference). SKE50782.

<2> 'Ephemeris Epigraphica', vol. 9, p. 514, no. 991, 1913. (OS Card Reference). SKE41658.

<3> Maidstone Musuem, Gazetteer. (OS Card Reference). SKE46502.

<4> F1 AC 03-DEC-51 (OS Card Reference). SKE41748.

<5> Field report for monument TQ 67 SE 27 - December, 1951 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3617.