r/hobart • u/Agreeable-Exam-167 • 1d ago

Mystery milestone

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I was walking up Amy St in Moonah today and I saw this in a front yard. Any thoughts as to where it came from? We think it's just standard Tasmanian DMR but it might not be.

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u/Thedarb 1d ago edited 22h ago

Post WW2, pre-metric mile-marker.
25 + 68=93
93 miles = ~150 kilometres

So likely, this is from the A5 between Melton Mowbray and Deloraine:
https://www.expressway.net.au/gallery/roads/tas/alphanumeric/a5/index.html

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u/Agreeable-Exam-167 1d ago

Brilliant work! So it would have been somewhere around Apsley by my maths.

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u/Tasmq66 20h ago

They were still installing them in the 60s

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u/Thedarb 16h ago

National metric conversion started in 1970 with the passing of the Metric Conversion Act. Most mile markers were swapped to metric during the national motoring changeover in 1974.

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u/JimmehGrant 1d ago

What the fuck is a ‘metric mile’?

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u/Hamster-rancher 1d ago

Once you've nutted that out, look into long and short kilometres.

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u/Select_Pirate6571 1d ago

Looks Like an old fashioned mile post. Pre decimal, so the numbers would be miles distant from a town, although where M and D are I have no idea.

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u/Various_Grab_5877 1d ago

Old mile markers as you see them up the Midlands and also out sorell way

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u/Tasmq66 21h ago

Dry few left these days, I have 2 and I can tell you they are bloody heavy

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u/Various_Grab_5877 21h ago

Oh yeah they would be bloody heavy

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u/Agreeable-Exam-167 1d ago

Kind of amazing that they were individually cast isn't it!

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u/Prior-Listen-1298 1d ago

I'm sure I've seen a few arrived Hobart. On Elphinstone Road from memory there one.

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u/pigeonmoo 1d ago

Survey Control Marks – DPIPWE – Public Search

I'm not sold on it being a Survey Control Mark. Looks like a milestone.

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u/Tasmq66 21h ago

That’s what it is, nothing to do with surveys

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u/pigeonmoo 21h ago

100% This was originally in response to another comment but I've not been paying attention while posting from my phone.

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u/Shadowzeny 1d ago

Land markers I think for grid values

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u/Tasmq66 21h ago

No, distance markers for roads

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u/Carojitterbug 1d ago

Thankyou!