Ohio Jerry
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Surveyor's Stake?? Part of the mystery may forever remain a mystery
Found this at an 1800's cellarhole site. It is solid copper almost a foot long. The tip with the cross cut in it was around 4 inches down and gave me a "cheap thrill" with a nice 92 vdi that pinpointed real nice. I'm guessing surveyor's stake but wondered if anyone here had ever dug one or seen one like it?? Thanks in advance for any input,
Jerry
update:
This item has been positively identified as a one foot long section of trolley wire used in deep coal mining so there's no mystery remaining as to what it is. What is was used for is another question. Since it was obviously driven straight down into the ground and has cross cut marks on the top edge I'm assuming it was used as some sort of marker. I thought it may have been one of four corner markers for the cabin that was built here back in the 1800's but after working over the other three logical areas for other stakes and coming up empty I'm not so sure. Sorry there was no cache of gold coins under it mpostma...THAT would have been a good story
Thanks for having a look,I'm afraid this one is "case closed"
Jerry
Found this at an 1800's cellarhole site. It is solid copper almost a foot long. The tip with the cross cut in it was around 4 inches down and gave me a "cheap thrill" with a nice 92 vdi that pinpointed real nice. I'm guessing surveyor's stake but wondered if anyone here had ever dug one or seen one like it?? Thanks in advance for any input,
Jerry
update:
This item has been positively identified as a one foot long section of trolley wire used in deep coal mining so there's no mystery remaining as to what it is. What is was used for is another question. Since it was obviously driven straight down into the ground and has cross cut marks on the top edge I'm assuming it was used as some sort of marker. I thought it may have been one of four corner markers for the cabin that was built here back in the 1800's but after working over the other three logical areas for other stakes and coming up empty I'm not so sure. Sorry there was no cache of gold coins under it mpostma...THAT would have been a good story
Thanks for having a look,I'm afraid this one is "case closed"Jerry
I would have never known. (and I used to play in abandoned mines as a kid near Pittsburgh)
