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Odd slab

  • 04-08-2020 12:44pm
    #1
    cfuserkildare
    Registered Users Posts: 3,567 ✭✭✭


    Just had this picture sent to me.

    Anyone have any idea what it is?


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  • #2
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,222 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i just have a mental image now of people sending you unsolicited pics of slabs to your whatsapp...


  • #3
    cfuserkildare
    Registered Users Posts: 3,567 ✭✭✭cfuserkildare


    I know,

    I receive the oddest things sometimes,

    But this picture was sent to me by my Dad,

    Set in pavement outside the AIB in Wicklow town.


  • #4
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,222 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    to me it just looks like it might be cement or concrete backfilled into a square hole, perhaps where a bin or small tree might have been?


  • #5
    slowburner
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,218 Mod ✭✭✭✭slowburner


    It looks like one half of a drain for receiving run off from a down pipe. The circular part would have been directly under the down pipe and a groove would have carried the run off away across the path to the kerb.
    These are common enough in Wicklow villages and were usually hand cut in granite. Sadly, they are frequently replaced with concrete or just removed altogether


  • #6
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,222 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i interpreted the circular pattern as probably being from the float used to smooth out the concrete; and there seems to be 'bleed' over the adjoining cobbles in the lower left which could indicate something was poured in - i don't think you'd see that with hand cut stone?


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  • #7
    cfuserkildare
    Registered Users Posts: 3,567 ✭✭✭cfuserkildare


    It's Sandstone,not cement.
    Presumably taken from somewhere else and then re-used as a slab.


  • #8
    Still waters
    Registered Users Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Still waters


    Its concrete/mortar by the looks of it


  • #9
    MrMusician18
    Registered Users Posts: 7,186 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    Looks like a concrete infill. The markings are very similar to those that a traffic cone would make if it were placed on it before it has fully set


  • #10
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,221 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Looks like a slip-on? Early 21st century Clarke’s?


  • #11
    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users Posts: 10,250 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    Not seeing it on Google Street view, but the 2009 images have posts that have since been removed.






    523036.jpg


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