Chiseled Marks and old Drill Holes - I love to see these, also.

[kayakbird]

A sample of Idaho and Oregon chisel marks - from east to west:

 

Most difficult to see CHISELED CROSS WT

 

 

Setting least likely to be removed PLN J 3 1903

 

 

Nice, sharp, chisel work PLN P 3 1903

 

 

Most remote PLN S4 1903

 

 

Neat rock structure PLN V 5 1904

 

 

A bit scruffy in 1920 G 21 1920

 

 

Mystery Mark - supposed be a chiseled square - long term typo or a RESET?

 

P 20 1920

 

 

It is on the correct RR culvert at the right L/L.

 

 

Any of these out east? MEL

Edited April 18, 2012 by kayakbird

[+DragonsWest]

Quite elusive, until someone cleared the blackberry vines. I've tried on this one 3 times, third was the charm!

 

 

 

There are a number of chiseled squares in the backroads between Watsonville, CA and Gilroy.

[+Harry Dolphin]

Yes. I hae posted this elsewhere, but it seems to fit Shirley's interest in chiselled marks.

 

 

Caching with my brother (Oh. It's only a 350' climb in a half mile, and there are four caches including this one from 2001.) "Okay. There's a benchmark. Let's go for it." Pisgah (1979) PF1048 was an easy find, with the two RMs. But near RM2, I found what's in the above photo. Copper bolt in a chiselled triangle (seems to be chiselled into the wod "Raymond") Nearby PF1048 is PF1049 (with no info, nor page.) I've asked Deb if this coudld be PF1049 (Pisgah 1934), but if her page has no info, how can she say? But, I'll guess that that's what it is.

Oh, well. It's a nice copper bolt in a chiselled triangle for Shirley.

[+Michaelcycle]

I have found chiseled squares, crosses and triangles but Sunday I found a chiseled arrow. I know that these have been used as reference marks (eg., Sugar Loaf Mountain) but this one is listed as a vertical control: JU0646

 

 

 

 

My reading of Bulletin 21 of the Department of Conservation and Development State of NJ (this mark is described on page 106) suggests that the control was established as part of the 1919 leveling run. Seemed like an odd mark but then I realized that the surveyor used the shaft of the arrow as the indicator of the elevation (18.97')

[2oldfarts (the rockhounders)]

A very nice chiseled arrow. Thank you for posting this one for all to enjoy.

 

Shirley~

 

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[kayakbird]

Michaelcycle,

 

Thanks for that documentation link.

 

If you do a Recovery to NGS, and submit that information, they may change the 'JU0646 HISTORY UNK MONUMENTED NJGS' date. Are there other PID's in that level run that could be updated also?

 

Don't have New Jersey in my GSAK files for a quick filter sort. kayakbird

Edited May 20, 2016 by kayakbird

[2oldfarts (the rockhounders)]

Well, since this Benchmarking forum might be deleted along with all of the Benchmark logs, I wanted to post on this special one that so many of the people I know so well posted to for me to see what they found. Chiseled marks are very special and we met so many of the people who posted here at one time or another and of course Harry Dolphin was in Off Topic and it has been shut down and probably soon to be discarded. So that is the reason I am posting here to be able to look at all of the posts in this thread before it is deleted. 

 

I hope others that are interested in chiseled marks (which some were from the 1800's) will enjoy looking at what some of us have found. If anyone else would like to post their logs here, do so and I will be checking back until the end of it all. 

 

Thanks everyone here that have been such a big part of my life, and if John were still alive, he would thank you also. 

 

Sincerely,

Shirley Bloomfield - Half of the 2oldfarts

[+vw_k]

An interesting thread, I also search for chiseled benchmarks and other types when out geocaching, the most common type over here are known as "cut benchmarks" or simply "cut marks" and there is a website for logging them at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk as well as the ordnance survey archive which shows where most of them are.

 

I even have one on my house.

[foxtrot_xray]

3 hours ago, vw_k said:

An interesting thread, I also search for chiseled benchmarks and other types when out geocaching, the most common type over here are known as "cut benchmarks" or simply "cut marks" and there is a website for logging them at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk as well as the ordnance survey archive which shows where most of them are.

 

I even have one on my house.

My last trip over the pond was in 2011, my (now ex-) wife and I traveled central and northern Wales, and I went out of my way to find a few of these trig marks. That'd darn awesome you got one on your house.

[JASTA 11]

Digging through the archives for a couple chiseled marks to bump this thread:

 

MY3835: LYNDEBORO PINNACLE  1873

 

 

Edited August 31, 2023 by JASTA 11

[JASTA 11]

PF0996: MOOSILAUK  1873

 

 

[kayakbird]

Hi All,   I remembered doing this short (489 Smoots) hike,  but just not when/where.  Finally found it in the field book covering my first benchmarking trip to the Minnesota Arrowhead after a kayak race out of  Two Harbors.  And saw my first Broad-winged Hawk on the hike back the Mt Maude fire tower.  Leaded bolts, chiseled triangle & arrow; with extra credit for being set by the Geodetic Service of Canada.  Please overlook my HH2 blunder - should read:  HH2 475833.4 894453.7.  kayakbird (MEL)

[kayakbird]

Edit note:  My last is S0260  Pigeon.  The rock outcrop shows up nicely on the current Google Earth photo.  MEL

SG0260  HISTORY     - 1911     MONUMENTED       GSC

[foxtrot_xray]

I have one to contribute this year. Completely unexpected.

LG0282 - Chiseled Cross Filley, located in SE Nebraska. On a small dirt road that used to be a more important thoroughfare than it is now..

Carved is 'US', 'BM', and the X above the BM. There's something carved at a right-angle to the 'US BM' above the X, but I couldn't make it out. CS, maybe? Dunno.