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Summary

An unusual Visick type one standard cast iron fingerpost survives in the central of Pilaton.

Protected Status: None recorded

Other Statuses/Codes: none recorded

Monument Type(s):

• FINGER POST (20th Century - 1901 AD to 2000 AD)

Full description

A Visick type one standard cast iron fingerpost survives in the central of Pilaton. The column is round in plan with four sleeve mounted arms topped with an ogee ring and cone finial.
The bottom arm CALLINGTON over AMY TREE; next arm CLAPPER BRIDGE over BLUNTS over QUETHIOCK; the next arm (repaired) LANDULPH over HATT over SALTASH and the top arm records LANDRAKE.
Livery, all white with the arms and finial being painted racing green (previously black), picking out the raised edge and lettering, no distances are recorded and the whole finial picked out in black (3).
The fingerpost (guide post) is not recorded on early maps (1 & 2), suggesting C20, unusual in that the arms do not carry distances.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1880s, 1st Edition 1:2500 Map (Cartographic materials). SCO4048.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1900s, 2nd Edition 1:2500 Map (Cartographic materials). SCO4050.

<3> Pers. Comm., P Allen, Cormac Solutions - March 2013 (Personal communication). SCO25106.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

Related records: none recorded

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