what is a "stone bound"

tod osier

tod osier

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I got a surveyor map for a property I have permission to turkey and deer hunt and along with the stuff I'm familiar with (like stone fences, wire fences, metal poles, etc...) there are a lot of symbols for "stone bound", the symbol looks like a 3-petaled flower (or a boat prop from behind). What are they?!?!

T
 
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Wild guess: abbreviation for "stone boundary marker". Haven't seen a true stone, though I have seen the concrete/stone markers, especially those used as datum points.

Down here, they tend to use metal pipe, cotton spindle heads, or other markers driven into the ground, with witness trees whenever possible.

Some of the old surveys I dealt with in Texas literally used a stone or a tree as a corner point. Then again, Texas is one of those odd metes-and-bounds states, rather than township/range. Spanish land grants...translates roughly into "headache for anyone trying to map it out".
 
I googled up "stone bound" and it is used in reference to boundaries..."a stone bound with the letters A B scratched into it" I think it is a "stone" that is "bound" to the earth somehow so it's not readily moveable.
 
Lee

When I saw you replied in this thread I was expecting some reference to your youth in the 70s and being stone bound. If the term was beer bound well then there would have been no need to google it there resident expert :)
 
Either a pile of rocks or one prominent one that will typ. have a drill hole or an iron pin. Depends on how old the survey info is. Concrete markers were common later. Is the distance info in chains or rods, or in feet?
 
Not a suryer but it depends on where you live. On the east coast the first survays where done in bounds and means. From that rock to the creek to that big oak tree, etc.

Later in the West, Government surveys, Land was laid out in Townships ,square blocks of land. Often they put a Square granite stone as a marker. I use to run across them while deer hunting. Usually a small pile of rocks with a granite stone 4"x4" ?long . The top of the granite had a X on the top. If I remember it gave the range line and township no.
 
Cheese bound is brick to brick. We either sell it or wear it on our heads. Sundays is a good time to see that.
 
Lee,

come on you jackass, I don't ever remember calling you a dickhead.

T
 
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Measures are in feet, map prepared in 1992. I was guessing some sort of marker. There are literally dozens and dozens, so I was thinking they couldn't be to elaborate. I don't know if I'll get out before turkey opener to check.

T
 
makes sense, I need to follow the lines to see what the markers are.

I'm not used to working with properties like this 500+ acres.

T
 
The survey system where live Tod is "metes and bounds"... it's a marker for sure.

Lee, I was the dickhead, you were the peckerhead ; )
 
I once owned 5 acres that was marked on one corner with a cam shaft and another corner had an axle.
 
Howard I bet if you looked at one of the other corners you would have found a sparkplug. That would have been the starting point.(; )
 
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