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Found 1/4 corner today – new pics
Well I got a chance to get back to that 1/4 corner yesterday so I snapped a couple more shots.
I used the field book to reflect a little sunlight across the markings… it worked pretty well.
View from above the stone (on the right) and a tidbit of barbwire along the rock wall on the left side of the photo.
Close up of wire. Single strand wire with single wrapped barbs or crimped barbs in places. Any barbwire experts care to give me a date estimate or reference? I haven’t prepared any documentation for this corner yet so it would help me out on the corner report.
Stone markings traced with yellow lumber crayon. -
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Nice work!
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> Stone markings traced with yellow lumber crayon.
From Texas, that looks like a textbook example of a PLSS stone monument. The photos are pretty good, but I can’t help observing that white chalk would have done a better job of highlighting the markings than the lumber crayon did. Try it, you’ll like it.
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Thank Kent. I do want to try the chalk method. I just need to make a trip to the dollar store for some chalk 🙂
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> I just need to make a trip to the dollar store for some chalk 🙂
I think I’ve even seen it at the grocery store in the school supplies. Be prepared to spend at least $1.50 for a lifetime supply for field use. :>
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I don’t know Kent, that $1.50 seems a little steep for this Norwegian spendthrift 😉
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> I don’t know Kent, that $1.50 seems a little steep for this Norwegian spendthrift 😉
Norwegian? Why didn’t you say so? If you’re Norwegian, you’ll want to break the pieces of chalk in half so they will last twice as long. :>
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Chalk works well on old tomb stones also. We do quite a bit of grave yard research.
WB
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Great pictures!!
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LOL, HA! I think that I could probably make a Ole and Lena joke about that!
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Nice work Kevin. Great looking 1/4 . Personally, I like to do my highlighting digitally and not mark the stone up at all in the field if the marks are obvious and photogenic. This stems from my paranoia that some sort of visual augmentation may bring the stone to the attention of some layman chucklehead who thinks that it’d make a cool looking door stop. Or fetch a nice price on eBay.
Stealthily yours,
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Nice find. I also prefer the lumber crayons with the waxy composite that is non abrasive. Chalk is pretty abrasive to our sandstones but would be fine on harder rocks.
Keel is a bit more expensive but does not break up or degrade in your pockets like chalk tends to do. I do use chalk to write on the photo board during the documentation process. These pictures are most helpful when later trying to recall specific items about a recovery.
Deral
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