I am working on two separate tracts. Tract 1 is 100 acres, tract 2 is 60 acres. All completely wooded with no road frontage. I had shot a couple of corners the other day and had done some calculations to look for some other corners.
Today I am back looking for one of the other corners and found this about 1.5' from where I had calculated the corner to be.
Still has string and weighs close to 16oz if I had to guess. Not sure if the age but one that size I would think would be pretty old.
not to pee in the punchbowl, but maybe/maybe not. i've found a handful of those over the years and guess they just get routinely dropped by fence guys. though in your case the "maybe" sounds more likely.
reminds me of a really good friend of mine who kept finding these notched bones over the course of a couple decades of surveying. and he swore up and down they were commanche artifacts. problem being he was finding them with a frequency that completely belied that likelihood. one it dawned on me exactly what his collection old indian knife hilts really were: he'd amassed quite a pile of spiral-cut ham bones... i still send him youtube videos like this every once in a while:
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I wish there were fences here. No occupation anywhere to be seen. Well some occupation on the east side of the farm but nothing running in this direction at all.
Some chainman is in trouble...