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Fig. 11.10
Stone wall found buried just below the surface
Remember, it is the
original location
of the monument, not the monument itself that
controls the location of the boundary corner.
Sometimes it seems very unlikely that an original monument is still in exist-
ence. Where a relatively new sidewalk was located in exactly the spot where a
stone bound should have been, it seemed likely that the bound had been destroyed
when the sidewalk was installed. As shown in Fig.
11.12
the stone bound was
found located beneath a sidewalk in an urban location. It was found by using a
long probe angled in from the grassy area just outside the sidewalk. The probe
contacted a hard object. Once the area around and below the sidewalk was exca-
vated, the monument was found. Normally a monument such as this would have
