Chris,
Your idea sounds suitable - I'll do a check of Gloucestershire HER for you tomorrow (though I suspect they won't be anything specifically recorded), especially along the part of the A38 road here. If, as the crown and initials suggest, a 20th century date they won't appear in the reference I've put below, but it is a rather helpful read if you can get a copy and may give something of any ancestry to the marker plaque if indeed it is connected with the telephone system (though both bench mark and marker post would be admissible as thesaurus terms in the meantime and the telephone link 'not proven').
The reference is;
Francis Celoria 1978 ‘Early Victorian telegraphs in London’s topography, history and archaeology’, J Bird, H Chapman and J Clark (eds.) Collectanea Londiniensia: studies in London archaeology and history presented to Ralph Merrifield, London: London and Middlesex Archaeological Society).
Best wishes,
Keith
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From: Issues related to Historic Environment Records [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Chris Webster
Sent: 16 August 2010 17:28
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Subject: Friday afternoon query
I know it's Monday really...
We've got a few entries in the HER that relate to what we believe to be early C20 long-distance telephone cable markers. The first (http://webapp1.somerset.gov.uk/her/details.asp?prn=27012)was identified in the 1980s by the (then) telephone museum in Taunton and described as such, presumably by the museum. We've since found more along the line of the A38 so presumably from Bristol to Exeter. Last week while in Sussex I spotted another very nice example (pic attached).
Anyone else got these - or any more information about exactly what they are? I won't ask for a Thesaurus term! ;)
Chris Webster
Somerset Historic Environment Record
Somerset Heritage Centre
Brunel Way
Taunton
TA2 6SF
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