Highway or Utility Marker? (see pic) (Greenville: phone, grass, banks)

[stu_stu]

Does anyone know what kind of marker this is in the lower right corner of the photo? White w/ reddish orange on top. It's on US 264 in Hyde Co.

If it's a utility marker, what kind?

Thank you.

[Since72]

Utility most likely phone

[Richard Martin]

Yup, looks like the last of what was probably at one time, many buried phone cable markers. When the state cuts the grass they knock them over and chew them up.

[AndThenScottSays...]

It's CenturyLink fiber. They have (IIRC anyway) an OC-48 that runs from Greenville to the Outer Banks along that path.

[stu_stu]

Much obliged everybody.