The intention with this website is to locate at least 1,001 benchmark sites, or die in the attempt (no flowers please, house private). Photos of any benchmark sites found will be posted at intervals over the coming days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries ... Anyone who wishes to contribute can send photos and descriptions of any benchmarks they find and would like to have included here, to mfbourke@gmail.com See post Number 1 for a fuller description.
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Wednesday, September 30, 2015
NUMBER 981
BENCHMARKS continued
This
one in Edinburgh, Scotland, from Michael Byrne is on Merchiston
Cresent at its junction with Napier Road.
Below:
A 'mark on Merchiston Cresent at its junction with Napier Road,
Edinburgh.
Above: On
Merchiston Cresent and looking north west into Napier
Road and with the 'mark on the right.
NUMBER 980
BENCHMARKS continued
This
one in Edinburgh, Scotland, from Michael Byrne is on Merchiston
Cresent at its junction with West Castle Road.
Below:
A 'mark on Merchiston Cresent at its junction with West Castle Road,
Edinburgh.
Above: On
Merchiston Cresent and looking north west into West
Castle Road with the 'mark on right.
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
NUMBER 979
BENCHMARKS continued
This
one in Edinburgh, Scotland, from Michael Byrne is on Merchiston
Cresent at its junction with East Castle Park Road.
Below:
A 'mark on Merchiston Cresent at it's junction with East Castle
Park Road, Edinburgh.
Above:
Looking south west back into Merchiston Cresent and with the 'mark on
the right.
NUMBER 978
BENCHMARKS continued
This
one in Edinburgh, Scotland, from Michael Byrne is on Ettrick Grove,
which is a continuation of East Castle Road.
Below:
A 'mark on Ettrick Grove, Edinburgh.
Above: On
Ettrick Grove and looking south east with the 'mark at lower right.Michael Byrne adds "thankfully, this 'mark managed to survive the road-sign assault, and most of it still manages to see the light of day!"
NUMBER 977
BENCHMARKS continued
This
one in Edinburgh, Scotland, from Michael Byrne is on Colinton
Road at its junction with Abbotsford Crescent.
Below:
A 'mark on Colinton Road, Edinburgh.
Above: On
Colinton Road and looking south east into Abbotsford Crescent with
the 'mark on the right. It is badly eroded but thankfully someone
highlighted it in yellow some time past.
NUMBER 974
BENCHMARKS continued
This
one in Edinburgh, Scotland, from Michael Byrne is on Tipperlinn Road
at its junction with Colinton Road.
Below:
A 'mark on Tipperlinn Road, Edinburgh.
Above: On
Tipperlinn Road and looking north east with the 'mark at bottom left.
Michael Byrne adds “almost missed this one, thinking that it was
another that had fallen prey to a junction box. Spotted it tucked
away on the inside edge of a gate pillar, safe and sound”.
Monday, September 28, 2015
NUMBER 968
BENCHMARKS continued
This
one in Edinburgh, Scotland, from Michael Byrne is on Polwarth Terrace at
the Ettrick Road junction.
Below:
A 'mark on Polwarth Terrace, Edinburgh.
Above: On
Polwarth Terrace and
looking north east with the 'mark on the right. It's unusual
only in that it's the only 'mark found to date in Edinburgh, which
was incised "upside down".
NUMBER 962
BENCHMARKS continued
This
one in Edinburgh, Scotland, from Michael Byrne is on Sir Walter
Scott's Monument, Princes Street.
Below:
A 'mark on Sir Walter Scott's Monument, Princes Street,
Edinburgh.
Above:
Looking south onto the front steps of the monument with the 'mark at
bottom left on front of first step.
Sunday, September 27, 2015
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