This unusual monument caught my eye while surveying.
At first it appears to be a discarded bucket of concrete. The point at the center made me want to examine it, but I did not expect it was some kind of survey mark. It was found a short distance from the road.
The conclusion is that this point marked an angle in the side line of a Worcester County Highway and has been removed from the position it once marked. Although not visible due to the resolution of the photograph. The letters ??WCH? are stamped around the point in the brass or copper plug.
We will attempt resetting the mark in the process of the survey. I can imagine there is rock under the surface at the location that prohibited the use of the standard monument of concrete.
The next picture is the standard monument one expects to find at the edge of the County Highway.
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Historic boundaries and conservation efforts.
Interesting find. At least in eastern Worcester County, there are also some nice cut-stone WCH monuments.
An excellent surveyor based in Lake County, California in the 1950s and 60s set a rebar/tag centered in a coffee can filled with concrete, he set a lot of those extremely accurately.
@not-my-real-name It occurred to me that I might have photos of one of the stone WCH monuments, and sure enough I found some. Interesting how it was set into a stone wall. In the vicinity are two others where the ROW is very wide, set with their tops flush with the ground.
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@bill-c That can't be the monument, nobody has used half a can of fluorescent pink paint on it.
Andy
One day I was looking at a bar set inside a coffee can full of concrete and the adjoiner strolled up to see what I was up to.?ÿ I had known the old boy since I was a toddler.?ÿ These were tiny little lots on a small lake.?ÿ I said to him, "Hollis, this makes no sense.?ÿ Every other bar I've found agrees except for this one."?ÿ That's when he said, "Of course.?ÿ They put the original bar in a bad place so I pulled it and moved it over here out of the way.?ÿ Even added the coffee can and concrete to make real solid."?ÿ He was in his mid-80's and didn't really care what anyone thought about anything.?ÿ He sort of chuckled as I drove a new bar in the correct location.
the ones set by Terrence (I think that was his name) are specifically called out as set tagged rebar in concrete on the Plat, and they are wherever he went.
@andy-bruner People often forget the third of the three criteria for an item to be accepted as a monument: original, undisturbed, and *spray painted.* ????