I'm not a regular field person anymore, but I do save some locations for days like today since it is my 47th birthday. I went out with the crew and we remonumented two locations which each had marked 1857 original GLO stones.
The photos below are from the second site. The stone was down about 2.5 feet below the gravel road surface and had a treasure of broken china and glass as well as a few pieces of rotted wood stake. The crew watched as I meticulously cleaned off each piece of china as it came out of the hole. I concluded that there were china pieces from at least three different items, one of which was a china water pitcher. The glass came from at least three different sources as well. I counted 220 pieces.
We bagged up the broken pieces in two ziplocs and they then became a memorial placed on the north side of the stone. As usual procedure, we set a lower pipe monument 4 feet deep, then reset the stone over the pipe, made a drill hole in the top of the stone, and then set a capped pipe above the stone. (Triple monumentation). All this gets written up as part of the new historical record for this location.
The stone was placed on September 11, 1857, by U.S. Deputy Surveyor John B. Gridley. I love retracing Gridley's work since the stones are always just as the notes state for monumentation. The china and glass, however, were a nice surprise to find.
As usual 'Nice Find'.
Jerry-
You caught on to some 'noble' English pottery bits:
"Dieu et mon droit"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieu_et_mon_droit
Cheers,
Derek
That is remarkable. Great post.
Awesome find.
And, my usual thoughts, range through the idea "Hmm... I wonder, am I leaving behind enough foot steps?.....are my surveys a treasure trove, or an ambiguous pile of mumbo jumbo...?"
Leave footsteps.
I have often driven a 30" rebar, about 1/2 way, sawed it 1/2 way through with a hack saw, and then drove it the rest of the way. IF it gets whacked, well, it will break off, and leave the lower portion. Often I add another rebar on to of this, and there is a marker there for a long time!!
N
I'm gonna get in trouble.......but.........
You know you are getting way too old when this is the type of hole you go in search of to help celebrate your birthday.
Looks like someone dropped a big rock on their dinnerware...
Great find Jerry, and Happy Birthday, you youngster!!
Scott
I'm gonna get in trouble.......but.........
> You know you are getting way too old when this is the type of hole you go in search of to help celebrate your birthday.
:whistle: :good:
You wanna' hear something crazy, I was digging this hole the other day to find the correct position of, or another monument witnessed by a piece of angle-iron.
As i'm digging
I start to find pieces of glass the same exact color as what you had posted. Small pieces of porcelain, and a rusted piece of iron that very much resembled the swivel on the Gunter's Chain that Kent had posted yesterday.
I couldn't figure out what I was looking at until I realized this was only a block corner in the Houston Heights. Might have been the spot of a burn barrel.
Kept thinking about this post and wondering what the hey was going on here.
Never seen this before. Found one day after reading this post.
