Lighthouse

[telophase]

Reading a short book called Packhorse, Waggon and Post: Land Carriage and Communications under the Tudors and Stuarts, by J. Crofts. (orig published 1967, reprint 2007.)

Page 16, talking about how terrible the roads were in the early modern era, says that in some cases carriers fanned our, even a couple of miles apart, tying to find either the road or a passable way along the route. Brig, in Lincolnshire, had a land lighthouse!

It would never occur to me to put a land lighthouse into a book if I hadn’t read it.

Dunston Pillar, raised by the dude who founded the organization that later became the Hellfire Club: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunston_Pillar

Comments

[yhlee]

So cool!

[lilysea]

Wow! ^_^

Thank you for sharing! ^_^

[movingfinger]

Were lines of cairns commonly used? I've seen them in a lot of places, especially in the north.

[selenite0]

Thinking of stories of read of people being lost in horrible swamps, that makes an incredible amount of sense. Wouldn't even have to be a lighthouse. Could just put signal fires on nearby hills.

Though I suppose the swamps wouldn't have enough traffic to justify the effort . . . trade offs there.

[adafrog]

Wow.