I came across a very interesting article in the July 5th UK Comet. It is about a milepost dating back to the Parliamentart Act of 1724 that was recently found buried in a field.

I doubt that there are any signs of that vintage here in the US. How it got buried is interesting as well. During WWII, it was removed from the roadside of Highway A1, the Old North Road (I've also saw it called the Great North Road in further research). It gets better, the reason it was removed was so that German soldiers would not know where they were. Now that is VERY interesting. Things were going so badly that there was an imminent fear of an invasion.

An old man told the new landowner that he remembered seeing it buried as a lad of seven. A search of the field was made and it was found by a hedgerow.

This is an exceedingly rare find as very few of that age survive today.

It was restored by the Milestone Society and reerected at Lower Caldecote on a service road of A1. This service road was an original alignment of the OId North Road which dates back to the days of the Romans.

In Britain, the "A" roads are essentially like the US Highways, Their Motorways, or "M"s, are comprable to US interstates.

Now, That's What I call an Interesting Story. --RoadDog