🏛️ Borne milliaire de Biozat
Roman milestone from the reign of Hadrian
📋 Fast Facts
- Location: Biozat, Allier department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, France
- Date: c. 120–121 CE, reign of Emperor Hadrian
- Roman province: Aquitania
- Distance marked: 17 leugae (approximately 32 km) to Augustonemetum (modern Clermont-Ferrand)
The Borne milliaire de Biozat is a surviving Roman milestone situated in the Allier department of central France. Erected during Hadrian's reign in the early 2nd century CE, it marks a point along the Roman road network that connected administrative centres across Aquitania. The artifact provides material evidence of Roman infrastructure and standardized distance measurement systems in the western provinces ...