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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Saturday, June 20, 2015

NUMBER 872

BENCHMARKS continued

This one is from Ross who writes “ It is located high in the Mourne Mountains on the Slievenaman Road near Spelga Dam and, in fact, is the only mark (apart from those on Triangulation Pillars) I can find in N.Ireland above 400m in height.”
Ross blogs on all things to do with benchmarking at:- http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=56109555&displayclass=black

Below: A 'mark on the Slievenaman Road near Spelga Dam in the Mourne Mountains.
 
 Above: A view along the Slievenaman Road with the low wall on which the 'mark is located, at left.

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