A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers. [from 14th c.]
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I do remember a great thron in Yatton field near Bristow-way, against which Sir William Waller's men made a great fire and killed it. I think the stump remains, and was a mark for travellers.
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1859, Henry Bull, A history, military and municipal, of the ancient borough of the Devizes: