Help in identification

[dakender]

Buddy of mine sent this to me, he knows I dig alot and was wondering if I had ever found anything like it. NOPE We are in SW Missouri, and he found it in his yard. Here is what he had to say about it: It is made of Marble/limestone. It is alittle over one foot tall and does not appear to be broken off of a taller piece. It appears to be intact. It is very heavy and has ornate carving on the top and comes to a steeple point.

 

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[garrettJL]

I've seen some property boundary markers that are similar to that.

 

[Frankn]

looks like a survey marker, but they usually go down 2' in the ground. It is illegal to move those markers. Frank

 

[tennessee digger]

I think it may be a mile marker, placed along the side of roads at 1 mile intervals. I saw several at a place that I was metal detecting down near Murfreesboro, Tennessee one time. The man who lived there told me that his grand dad took them from the old road back years ago when the state was going to widen it and pave it. He said they were mile stones and they looked very similar to yours. I wish I had got one from him. Tennessee digger

 

[dakender]

Thanks for all the info, will let him know what you all have said here. Come to find out, he has found more, and it looks like they are or were being used as "FILL" for the back of his yard. He has an OLD house built back around 1909 I think is what he said.

 

[trailrider0491]

It looks like a head stone, I have seen many of them around here in Oklahoma.