Dear Everyone,

I am reading "Historic Houses of South Africa" by Dorothea Fairbridge
(1922) in which she mentions (p.47-8) post office stones: 'slabs carved
with the manes of ships and usually with the notice that letters would
be found beneath them. They were used by ships passing to and from the
East prior to 1652, a means of communication'.

Can anyone give me any more information about these stones, and how they
were used (and re-used as building material).

With best wishes to all,

Pat
(writing in an England where the sun appears not to have risen for 48
hours)
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