A little something for the naysayers, disbelievers and other general irritants in life. Loaded up Mrs. Cow and her iPad thingamajig and traveled back to the stone discussed in an earlier thread. Despite being a rather sunny day there were still too many trees and leaves for better photos.
The photo above is from the same angle as the initial viewing. You can see both deep and shallow grooves in the stone. Those were filled with dirt and short fescue grass upon arrival. The lobe towards the bottom of the photo appeared to be two very small stones. The lobe to the right appeared to be two larger stones. The lobe to the upper left had just enough dirt across the mid line to appear to be two slightly larger stones. At first I thought I was seeing remnants of a stump rather than stone. After rolling under the first, newer fence and then over the second older fence three feet from it and winding around a couple of 3-foot diameter hedge trees I arrived to get a better look.
Once I began pulling the tufts of grass it began to resemble a single stone. Carefully tried to clear out all the dirt and debris until it was clear that it was, in fact, a single stone very firmly placed in an upright position. Try to ignore the fence wire passing directly over dead center. The fence is over 100 years newer than the stone placement.
The last photo is a close up view. Note the absence of spray paint and 83.44 feet of flagging. I did tie a knot of flagging on the top fence wire directly above the center of the stone to alert any future visitors attempting to follow our survey plat references.
Holy Cow, post: 370383, member: 50 wrote:
The last photo is a close up view. Note the absence of spray paint and 83.44 feet of flagging.
Yes, but if your client finds out that you shorted him on the spray paint, won't he feel cheated?
I thought there was a thread awhile back about this, but I can't find it.
I'm wondering how it is exactly called out....just a set stone?
Are there rocks like this in the area?
The thread title was Castle Nut/Survey Stone and started on April 25 or 26. Here's the original message.
"Today, we went searching for a stone at a center corner. What I first saw appeared to be something similar to the castle nut shown. Several rounded stones protruding from the soil. Further investigation proved them to be a single stone with crossing indentations an inch or more wide and an inch or more deep firmly set within five feet of our predicted center of section. There were no other stones naturally occurring anywhere near this location. This one was roughly 14" in diameter. No, there was no threaded hole in the middle! But, it lined up very well with three-foot diameter hedge (Osage orange/bodark/bois d'arc) trees and fences headed N-S-E-W.
The only place we found historical documentation of any kind of stone at the center corner was on a railroad strip map. That stretch of rail was installed in 1888 but I have no way of knowing for certain when the strip map originated. I do know that the stone indicated at the northeast corner of the same section was set in the Government survey in 1865 and that it was very close to the ties provided in two directions to the rail."
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As I said at the start, I did not have a boundary survey to tell me it had been set. All I had was the railroad strip map that reported a "stone" being at the center corner and a certain distance from the center line of the railroad.
OK - I thought "castle nut stone" was an odd description.
Kind of looks like limestone or some other type stone that dissolves over time from exposure to water.
imaudigger, post: 370493, member: 7286 wrote: OK - I thought "castle nut stone" was an odd description.
Kind of looks like limestone or some other type stone that dissolves over time from exposure to water.
Or a semi-petrified meadow muffin. B-)
Limestone.
My initial post compared it to the castle nut shown above.......without the threaded hole, of course.
Nice looking "4" on that stone! Great job!
Nice find thanks for sharing.
I wonder how many people besides Surveyors and Rockologists enjoy looking at pictures of rocks:-S
Back in the days when hippies thought they ruled the Earth I recall some class of people being called Stoners. Maybe this is what people meant by that.