Milestone, QUB playing fields, Upper Malone Road, Belfast, BT9 5NB

Stone milestone of perhaps c.1750, set in shubbery at the edge of a line of trees within Malone Playing Fields, approximately 100m east of the eastern end of Old Coach Road. The stone is rectangular in form and plan, with a flat top. It is worn and pitted, and partly covered in lichen, and as such little of the original inscription can be discerned. Its front face belived to have read 'Belfast 3' - the '3' standing for three Irish miles (the equivalent of 1.27 statute miles or 2.048km). The stone, associated with a stretch of a road probably cut sometime between c.1730s and c.1765, and closed c.1835, was removed during the laying out of the surrounding playing fields in 1962, and reinstated on or close to its original position in c.1963.