Summary
A mid-C20 county boundary marker.
Reasons for Designation
The boundary marker at the junction of Thicket Road and High Street, Staple Hill, Bristol, erected between 1951 and 1966, is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Historic interest: it marks the boundary between the city of Bristol and the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire;
* Intactness: in its original location, this stone boundary marker survives intact;
* Rarity: it is an unusual example of a pre-cast concrete boundary marker which employs the stylised design of a bar and circle.
History
Boundary markers including placed boulders or standing stones, trees and other natural landscape features were used from antiquity to indicate the bounds of land units, and any attached jurisdiction, including estates, manors, townships and parishes. Later on, carved and cast examples were introduced, which were set in a wall, incorporated in a bollard, or free-standing, and often displaying the name or initial of the territory.
Details
MATERIALS: constructed of pre-cast concrete.
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