This picture is cool cause it shows a pit south of the stone.?ÿ
As can be seen the stone is splitting apart.
This stone also has a nice pit south of the corner as described.
Of course it's been broken and no longer has any markings.
Top is broken on this one, no pits remain visible.
No doubt what this is.?ÿ
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Great find!
that??s what surveying is about!!
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I have an odd stone.?ÿ It looks just like many of the survey stones found in this area.?ÿ It is definitely not a survey stone based on its location.?ÿ It stands straight up and is sort of square but not square.?ÿ The front and back are unmarked and more or less parallel.?ÿ Someday I will make the effort to dig down around it to learn more about it.?ÿ I have been within a few feet of it hundreds of times over my lifetime without noticing it until a couple of months ago.?ÿ It is located along the line where a fence once stood but not near a post.?ÿ The scrubby tree nearby is far enough away that it doesn't add to the potential reason for it to be there.?ÿ Sure wish Dad or Granddad was around to ask if they know anything about it.?ÿ Granddad bought that 80 in the 1920's without a mortgage.?ÿ The old fence was a divider between crop land and pasture land.?ÿ There are no other similar stones nearby.?ÿ I'm assuming it was in place prior to the erection of the old fence which was already in poor shape sixty years ago.?ÿ My best guess is it is a tombstone.?ÿ Perhaps for a human or perhaps for a valued animal/pet.?ÿ Perhaps the fence was built intentionally directly over the stone to provide it some protection.
Dug up a survey stone first thing this morning with a county backhoe with a clamshell bucket.?ÿ It was placed there about 142 years ago after a roadbed of sorts already existed, so had to have been set below the level of the road.?ÿ The top was only down about a foot.?ÿ It was so unremarkable that I didn't think to take a picture.?ÿ Maybe tomorrow when we dig it back up by hand to get a good shot on it I will remember to do so.
perhaps for a valued animal/pet
I should remember some day when I'm around the home town to see if the marker is still there for Dad's first favorite dog.?ÿ It had the dog's name scratched into some concrete added to field stones. It was by some tall "cedars" that I think are gone now. My nephew, his grandson, now owns the land. It was probably buried when Dad was single digits in age, when they could afford a bag of concrete before the Depression. My grandpa was renting the land and later bought it out of foreclosure.
When I was in (Jr Hi?) school we buried his then favorite dog on a different 80 acres. There was no marker, but I could still probably get within?ÿ a few yards of it.
Virginia City, Montana, they had a big archeology gathering to exhume 3 assumed men?ÿ who probably were hanged and buried in one grave marked with a stone engraved "3 HES". They didn't find any remains.
Virginia City, Montana, they had a big archeology gathering to exhume 3 assumed men?ÿ who probably were hanged and buried in one grave marked with a stone engraved "3 HES". They didn't find any remains.
Any Homestead Entry Surveys in the area?