Secret squirl
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Here is a 3 I missed, and found today looking for some of my pics of 3's. Notice it is on a tombstone.
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Pics?
That three is huge, the biggest I have seen is that shadow three I posted that is also an Eagle its around 50 feet across.
Something I have been working on and I thought I would share, remember this is work in progress.
Middle Ages Rod for Measuring land
In the Middle Ages, bars were used as standards of length when surveying land. These bars often used a unit of measure called a Rod, of length equal to 5.5 yards, 5.0292 metres, 16.5 feet, or 1⁄320 of a statute mile.
A rod is the same length as a perch or a pole, and was standardized in 1620 by Edmund Gunter with his Gunter's Chain which is the length of 4 rods or 66 feet.
The rod unit was still in use as a common unit of measurement in the mid-19th century in the United States.
Dividing 16.5 feet (a rod length) by 3 = 5.5 Feet which seems to be the basis for many of the Measurements I have found in the field and could very possible be halved to 2.75 feet.
I have seen 49.5 feet which equals 3 Rods.
They also used 1/2 of a Rod as well which is 8.25 feet, I have seen 41.25 feet which is 2.5 Rods as well as 82.5 feet which equals 5 Rods.
This would also explain why I have ran into so many measurments that 33 inches divided into evenly, because 33 inches is 2.75 feet.
However this would change the numbers considerably, for instance:
82.5 feet is what I had always considered 30 varas because 82.5 feet divided by 2.75 feet or (33 inches) equals 30 (what I thought of as Varas)
But if we look at 82.5 feet measured by the Rod at 16.5 feet per rod we get 5 Rods.
Or we divide (82.5 feet) with 1/3 of a rod (5.5 feet) and we get 15 Rods. And so on.
(The measurements above are very precise)
What is important here is that the only middle ages Land Measuring Device I could find that aligns with the modern day American Measurements (uses our same exact inch) are the Rod and Gunter Chain however they divided them up in ways that we don't use today. As far as I know Absolutely no other measuring device was invented that could be as close to our American measurements before the 1800s and the invention of the engineers chain which could measure down to one foot per link.