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Fig. 11.7
An old stone bound set in a pile of stones. The iron pipe is a witness marker used to
make it easier to find the boundary corner
unusual for the posts to be gone, while pieces of wire may still be found protrud-
ing from trees as in Fig.
11.8
. When boundary fences were made by nailing wire
to trees, the property lines will probably meander quite a bit.
In times past, trees were often marked as a method of indicating property
boundaries or corners. Figure
11.9
shows such a mark. These marks are referred
