This is the kind of thing I’d normally use as a bonus picture but I’m so baffled by it that I want to make sure everyone sees it.
So I was standing here the other day, whiling away a bit of time for reasons I don’t need to explain right now. This is, of course, the plaza between Sewall and Lovett halls:
At one point I glanced down and was astonished to see this little marker embedded in one of the stone tiles:
It’s very small, no more than a couple of inches, so it’s not hard to understand why I’d never noticed it before. Someone obviously went to some trouble to install it, though, cutting out a section of the stone to make room for it. So what on earth is this and why is it here? Anyone?
Bonus:
Likely a surveyorâs mark …
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Survey marker?
Surely it designates the spot where you play fortissimo. Whether you have a piccolo, trombone, marimba … whatever, you play it loud when standing there.
Over and out.
Oh, I forgot something: “Viva Anthony Rendon!”
I’ll be happy for Rendon to become the first World Series MVP from the losing team.
You beat me to it.
That was meant to be a reply under C Kelly’s
Anthony made us all proud. I worked with his mother at an engineering firm here in Houston when he was playing at Lamar and Rice. She is still working there, but apparently only because she wants to. Anthony is now a free agent. Big payday coming.
It could be a surveyor’s marker, but I have never seen one like it! (And as a registered surveyor in the State of Texas, I’ve seen a few ;-))
“FF” could possibly stand for “Finished Floor”. Possibly it was set as an elevation reference mark for constructing a floor of some sort.
Fascinating Find, Melissa!
Obviously a False Flag…
Could it be for the contractor who built the plaza?
There is a survey marker in the quad but that is not it.