??????? 711m 1600 crossflow block

[eeb43]

acquired a 711m engine with lots of fancy stuff dry sump etc but on the drivers side where the mount goes its got this? never seen anything like it before? any cluse as to what it signifies?

[notenoughtime]

Just looks like another casting stamp to me 

if anything special usually would be a machined face with markings 

[eeb43]

11 hours ago, notenoughtime said:

Just looks like another casting stamp to me 

if anything special usually would be a machined face with markings 

it does to me but i have never seen it before

[preacherman]

I have seen it before. Maybe a ford replacement engine. The engine in my old dutton kit car had one but could never make out the exact  info. Might have a picture of it