This is the 5th one of these I've looked for, so far it's 100%. They always seem easy to find.;-)
This one was a bit over 90' northwest of my calc position but it was easy to see, sticking up about 30" and 4 feet wide, it was in a ravine just north of the flowline. Really broken country and no helpful topo calls. As far as I can tell no one has ever looked for or found it, hard to imagine.
That one lead me to this one a 30"x16'x4" that I had looked for before and didn't find cause I was looking too far south, using the topo call of a ravine 2 chains south of the corner which was closer to 4 chains south of the marked broken, almost covered up stone.
Zoomed in: no doubt about this one, it is the center township corner, but only the three notches on the south edge survived.
Nice finds!
Makes one wonder what kind of beastly labor was the surveyor in command of. Approximately 27 cubic feet at 150 pounds per cubic foot is quite the monument.
It's possible that they found it kinda already in place "close" to where they surveyed and simply "turned" it so it was aligned properly, cause it sure is pointing north, still would have been a bunch of digging, it was west and north of where my coordinate had it calculated, you have to learn to let that go out in this area.
Amazing finds indeed.
I gather it was actually placed (set) and not an in situ rock adopted.
What part of that is considered 'the mark'?
Certainly if placed a laborious task.
Do these get any increased historical value/protection due to their age and status?
I'm often confronted with these scenarios and wonder if it's best kept secret to avoid vandalism.
That just looks like a bit of bedrock or possibly a 'floater' as we call large loose embedded rocks here, to the untrained. Wouldn't attract a second glance.
Paul Bunyan and Babe must have helped set that rascal.
This is a type I have seen a few times, you couldn't lift it on your own, but every now and then they show up in the notes. And every time they have I've recovered them. This one is in loose soil, frozen Monday but pretty easy digging if you were to set it.
