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The feet of the hill are washed by two rivers, and there is a plain in front extending for three Roman miles.

“Furlong” was as early as the 9th century used to translate the Latin stadium, 1⁄8th of the Roman mile.

Hadrian's Wall illuminations created a light where each of the forts and turrets used to be located, just one Roman mile apart.

He sent Fara with his brave Herulians and three hundred picked men of the bodyguard two and a half Roman miles in advance.

The Roman mile probably rested on a measure of a degree of the meridian.