<div dir="ltr"><div>I do not think my examples are really guard stones, but they look similar, and I found no tag for them.</div><div>My hope was that someone interested in guard stones could also be interested in the "other" guard stones. <br></div><div>(perhaps the duck principle could be applied: it looks like a guardstone, it keeps the wheels on the road like a guard stone, hence it can tagged as a guard stone)<br></div><div><br></div><div>The pair of "guard" stones one on each side of the minor road could be a kind of ancient width limiter for passing vehicles. I have seen many of these on the artificial earthen embankments (Italian: argine) that are common along waterways in the flat lands of Northern Italy. So we could tag them as barrier=bollard; maxwidth=x</div><div><br></div><div>The rows of "guard stones" along roads are certainly a predecessor of guard rails, i.e. they prevented vehicle from veering off the road. They are very common still today on minor mountain roads
<a href="https://www.gooutdoor.it/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/tremalzo-1-810x540.jpg">(Example</a>). I read somewhere (can't find the source anymore) that in mountainous areas they were also used as "handbrakes" for horse carts. When the driver stopped on an uphill stretch, he would let the cart roll a little bit backwards and outwards to rest it against one of these "guard" stones.</div><div>These are certainly linear features, they could be tagged like tree rows or guard rails.</div><div>Does Anyone know what they are called?</div><div>I just googled this <a href="http://strassengeschichte.de/Menueoptionen/Geschichte/HistorieGesch/Randsteine/randsteine.htm">interesting German document</a></div><div>So the German term is "Leitstein", at lest it was in the former DDR The modern equivalent are the "<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leitpfosten">Leitpfosten</a>", French "<font size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal">délinéateur</span></font>", but there is no English equivalent (I suspect that this was an invention of Napoléon, and the British didn't like him too much, as far as know, so they decided to put the reflective markers on the middle of the road, and since have been driving along the middle line of the road)<br></div></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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