Pic from the field

Is this considered "surveyor porn"?

[sarcasm]0.5ft???? Looks to me like there is enough room to stick a shiny new rebar next to that...[/sarcasm]

You certainly have some interesting old corner marks there.
Good to see these posted.

Stones were only used to make stoned piles around wooden pegs here, but I have seen an odd stone set on end.
...it was about 0.5' off line What makes you suspicious it's not in its original position?
Were the original surveys accurate enough to limit those sort of errors?
Do measurements take precedence over monuments there?

Here in Tasmania we would have to be sure the peg was placed in error which after 100 years is hard to even contemplate and with inherent survey errors one would ignore at their peril for just 1/2 a foot.
I'm just curious.

He was making a painfully obvious joke... .5 foot!!!

Yes I did wonder, but I'd seen posted here images of corners held down with multiple iron pins and wondered!

Nice find! What is the year of placement?

Good one.

Nice!! Looks like it was barely above ground in thick grass, did it take a while to recover, or did you go right to it?

The stone was set in 1899. We had some calculated coordinates so we were able to get close. It took about 10 minutes to find. It was the only stone in the area and there was about 3" of it exposed with some taller grass in the area.

What are the markings? Is it just the small cross? or is that a line above and another line to the left of the cross?

It is marked 1/4 for a quarter corner.

Cool, here is one from last week, south 1/4 of Section 32, sticking up about 1/2 an inch

I found it quickly, mainly because I had just located the SE of 32 and this stone was a bearing of S89-58W, 2639.6' from that corner, makes them easy to find;-)

Nice find!