NPS UNSTAMPED
State: CO
County: Montezuma
Quad: Weatherill Mesa
Location: N 37° 14.509' W108° 30.248'
Elevation: Unknown
Designation: NPS UNSTAMPED
Setting: Unknown
Type: Survey Mark
Year: Unknown
Established By: National Park Service
Recovered: 15 September 2008
Our loop on the Far View Trail took us past half a dozen Ancestral Puebloan structures of varying types. Preservation attempts at Megalithic House have included a rather ugly, but still I suppose functional, roofed enclosure. Set into the clay soil near Megalithic House we spotted this unstamped NPS survey disk. A survey mark set directly into the soil is unusual, to say the least. I'm assuming it is set atop a steel rod deeply embedded in the ground to add some stability.
National Park Service Official Description:
Official description unavailable.
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...National Park Service Survey Mark NPS UNSTAMPEDN 37° 14.509' W108° 30.248' |
...Eyelevel view of the disk set into ... dirt? I'm assuming it's set on top of a steel rod. |
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...Looking approximately E toward Megalithic House. |
...Looking approximately WSW from the trail near Megalithic House toward the mark (indicated). |
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