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boundary marker
Sign in to saveAlso known as boundary stone, boundary point, border stone, boundary tree, boundary marking, borderstone, stone mark, border monument
physical indication of a boundary
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- inscription
- Part of
- border
- Image
- Boundary marker in Oiso Japan.jpg
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- OpenStreetMap tag
- boundary=marker
- Commons category
- Border markers
- topic's main category
- Category:Boundary markers
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Encyclopedic overview
Historical boundary stone between the Principality of Lippe and the Kingdom of Prussia. A slate boundary stone on Maesglase A boundary marker on 0 Avenue between Canada (left) and the United States (right)
A boundary marker, border marker, boundary stone, or border stone is a robust physical marker that identifies the start of a land boundary or the change in a boundary, especially a change in direction of a boundary. There are several other types of named border markers, known as boundary trees, pillars, monuments, obelisks, and corners. Border markers can also be markers through which a border line runs in a straight line to determine that border. They can also be the markers from which a border marker has been fixed.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “boundary marker” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.