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German house mark on a house front from 1572, with variation of the shape double hook.. A house mark was originally a mark of property, later also used as a family or clan emblem, incised on the facade of a building, on animals, in signet and similar in the farmer and burgher culture of Germany, the Netherlands and the Nordic countries.
A non-primary road sign near Bristol shows Guildford Rules patches.Road signs in the United Kingdom and in its associated Crown dependencies and overseas territories conform broadly to European design norms, though a number of signs are unique: direction signs omit European route numbers, and road signs generally use the imperial system of units (miles and yards), unlike the rest of Europe ...
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. [1] There are several other types of named border markers, known as boundary trees, [2] [3] pillars, monuments, obelisks, and ...
The Czech Hiking Markers Standard is an international system of hiking markers for tourist trails, used in more countries than any competing standard. [citation needed] The signs and markers can be used in both wilderness and cities. They are internationally well understandable as they grow from the same tradition in other Central European ...
Left turn marker on a blue marked trail in the Czech Republic Marker of the Voyageur Hiking Trail in Canada. Trail blazing or way marking is the practice of marking paths in outdoor recreational areas with signs or markings that follow each other at certain, though not necessarily exactly defined, distances and mark the direction of the trail.
Daymark on St Martin's, Isles of Scilly Triangular daymark in the marina of Ystad, 2021 Scharhörn daymark in 1898. A daymark is a navigational aid for sailors and pilots, distinctively marked to maximize its visibility in daylight.
Counting aids other than body parts appear in the Upper Paleolithic.The oldest tally sticks date to between 35,000 and 25,000 years ago, in the form of notched bones found in the context of the European Aurignacian to Gravettian and in Africa's Late Stone Age.
Dennis is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, located near the center of the Cape Cod peninsula.It is a seaside resort town with colonial mansions along the northern Cape Cod Bay coastline and beaches along the southern Nantucket Sound. [1]