Ahem....Thread Jack!
> Hey did you ever get a copy of some field notes?
If you were addressing that question to me (the lowly OP)....
NO! Haven't seen one example of hand written field notes...old school or not.
Guess no one takes them any more.:-O
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I think the general idea is to figure out in advance what data you are going to take and put it in an orderly form. (Do as I say, not as I do.)
Be sure to look at Wolf & Ghilani Fig 9.6 (I think you have that book). I would add information like prism offset used, and note that I had set the temperature and pressure in the instrument and any changes I made during the work.
Here are some more from older textbooks. They probably aren't exactly applicable to your work but may suggest the flavor.
Aloha, in addition to what Bill posted, here are a few pages from Milton O. Schmidt's Fundamentals of Surveying.
Look for a copy of Survey Drafting by Gurdon H. Wattles, Copyright 1977
There is about 50 pages dedicated to field notes, including examples.
I have that book and looked through it. I didn't see a lot on traverses, and thought the above examples were better for the OP. It does have a lot of other situations covered.
Other references...
Bardsley, C.E., and E.W. Carlton, "Surveyor's Field-note Forms"
Pafford, F. William, "Handbook of Survey Notekeeping"
Roth and Rice, "Engineer's Field Notes"
Brinker and Taylor, "Elementary Surveying", Appendix A
Bouchard and Moffit, "Surveying"
Probably difficult to find an example in any of these books that anyone would consider optimal for their use.
Here is one for you..do your survey notes start at the top of the page and proceed downwards or start at the bottom and work their way to the top?
Brings back those old Smitties days!