The carved circles represent people, events and areas:
South milestone, facing Morningside Road North milestone, facing Morningside Road
(reading top to bottom of pillar):
(1) Chi-Rho, the universal Christian symbol (1) The initials M S for Muriel Spark (author)
/ a spark plug / golf tee, ball & club heads
(golf is said to have first been played on Bruntsfield Links)
(2) The proscenium of the Church Hill Theatre (2) Mathematical symbols re John Napier 1550-1617
inventor of logarithms
(3) Piano keys and a kipper (Morningside life, (3) A Bee - local industry
apparently!)(4) a shuttle and thread re linen weavers of (4) A Mouse and the Internet
Tipperlinn
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