Sentence examples for Roman mile from inspiring English sources

There are numerals and circles, stars and "herms" — the narrow sculptures, affixed with wheels, which resemble Roman mile markers.

The town's name derives from the Latin ad decimum, Desio being 10 (decimus) Roman miles north of Milan on the road to Como (one Roman mile was a thousand paces, approximately 4,860 feet, or 1,482 m).

At every 1/3 Roman mile there was a tower, and at every mile a fortlet (milefortlet, or milecastle) containing a gate through the wall, presumably surmounted by a tower, and one or two barrack-blocks.

The wall is punctuated by milecastles (marking every Roman mile) and occasional forts and fortlets, as well as bridges, turrets and major fortresses at Housesteads, Chesters and (just off the wall) Vindolanda.

It was also a demonstration of Rome's disciplinary technology, with defensive turrets and wall forts designed to control (and tax) traders entering into the Roman zone even spaced every 1/3 of a Roman mile even where that placed them on top of a high crag that no trader would ever visit.

This summer, you can visit the legendary "London Stone," a very old, much-storied, mysterious hunk of oolitic limestone rock wreathed around with legends it was a Druid sacrifice altar, it was a Roman mile stone, it can never be moved or the City will fall.

Note that Roman miles are shorter than modern miles.

Conveniently, he also decided that Al-Farghani's calculations had been done in Roman miles as opposed to nautical miles, which are a fifth longer.

The Arab value for the Earth's circumference agreed with the value calculated by Poseidonius or so Columbus argued, ignoring or forgetting that the Arabs expressed their results in Arab miles, which were longer than the Roman miles with which Poseidonius worked.

58 Roman miles, of course.

87 Narnia is 54 Roman miles from Rome.