Someone on here will be able to identify these things surely

[iBob]

Were you proceeding in a Westerly direction?

Yes that's right. Straight from Dixon of Dock Green's PNB.
How perceptive of you.

[Showzit]

I don't want to start another anti-masonic row here, but it sounds like the pyramid with the sun at the top. (female, not a mason, don't know what it's called!)

Any chance you could take a photo next time you are out with a camera!

Sorry for the delay. The problem with taking the photo was...
(A) Any time I was in the pub I was to pissed to remember
(B) Producing a camera in the guys toilets of a Glasgow pub is likely to result in a 'burst mooth!'

Anyway here it is, can anyone shed any light?

[Josef]

That looks feck all like the symbol you posted at the start of the thread.

A hammer and sickle, perchance?

[Dexter St. Clair]

maybe it was a preparatory drawing.

[allyharp]

This is the one outside TGI Fridays. Thanks to others here who explained to me what it is.

Izzat a 50p on the ground?

[HollowHorn]

Showzit, I think it may be the initials of 'Rangers Football Club' in reverse.

[HollowHorn]

Izzat a 50p on the ground?

In Glasgow?

[busdriver]

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I have started noticing these fairly recently and my curiosity got the better of me. I assume it is some kind of survey mark but wondered if anyone on here could confirm this and perhaps offer some insight? This particular stud or nail can be found on the corner of Denmark Street & Keppochhill Road: (+55° 53' 11.10", -4° 15' 5.85")

[Bingo Bango]

Yeah that's exactly what they are - 'Survey Stations'. They put them in , verify them with a base station electronically and then take measurements of a site or building from these relative points, all to a high degree of accuracy.

Dont ask me how right enough.

[busdriver]

Yeah that's exactly what they are - 'Survey Stations'. They put them in , verify them with a base station electronically and then take measurements of a site or building from these relative points, all to a high degree of accuracy.

Dont ask me how right enough.

Thank you for that answer BB, my curiosity well and truly satisfied.

[Bingo Bango]

No problem BD.

It's interesting, I was thinking of this query this morning while walking for the train, and it was surprising the number of the things I spotted just in a short 5 minute walk.

If there is a fairly new building in an area, you are bound to spot them - corners of streets, half way along pavements etc.

Some older ones are loose as well. You could have them.

[Boxer6]

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I have started noticing these fairly recently and my curiosity got the better of me. I assume it is some kind of survey mark but wondered if anyone on here could confirm this and perhaps offer some insight? This particular stud or nail can be found on the corner of Denmark Street & Keppochhill Road: (+55° 53' 11.10", -4° 15' 5.85")

Are you sure, busdriver? Denmark Street ends at Allander Street, a fair bit away from Keppochhill Road. It does go to Hawthorn Street in the other direction (North), in fact crossing it and continuing until it turns West (and morphs into Lomond Road) just before the railway line.

[busdriver]

IMG20130726_001.jpg

I have started noticing these fairly recently and my curiosity got the better of me. I assume it is some kind of survey mark but wondered if anyone on here could confirm this and perhaps offer some insight? This particular stud or nail can be found on the corner of Denmark Street & Keppochhill Road: (+55° 53' 11.10", -4° 15' 5.85")

Are you sure, busdriver? Denmark Street ends at Allander Street, a fair bit away from Keppochhill Road. It does go to Hawthorn Street in the other direction (North), in fact crossing it and continuing until it turns West (and morphs into Lomond Road) just before the railway line.

make that Hawthorn Street it was a busy day.

[Boxer6]

IMG20130726_001.jpg

I have started noticing these fairly recently and my curiosity got the better of me. I assume it is some kind of survey mark but wondered if anyone on here could confirm this and perhaps offer some insight? This particular stud or nail can be found on the corner of Denmark Street & Keppochhill Road: (+55° 53' 11.10", -4° 15' 5.85")

Are you sure, busdriver? Denmark Street ends at Allander Street, a fair bit away from Keppochhill Road. It does go to Hawthorn Street in the other direction (North), in fact crossing it and continuing until it turns West (and morphs into Lomond Road) just before the railway line.

make that Hawthorn Street it was a busy day.

Yeah, I can relate to that!