By the looks of it, it's original, and while I couldn't find any foundry mark on it, there's an old gas lamp at very top which was made by Moses McCulloch and Co., Scotland's second oldest architectural ironworks.

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This guard stone prevented horse-drawn carts and carriages damaging the wall as they negotiated the hair-pin bend of the carriage ramp the wall was built to create.

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A cast iron guard 'stone' at the eastern end of Alexander 'Greek' Thomson's 1872 massive retaining wall on Kelvinside Terrace in Glasgow.

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