Any ideas?

  • FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io
    145·
    1 year ago

    That is a surveyor’s mark called an Above Ground Marker. It is used as a point of reference when they survey they land.

  • SolidGrue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    92·
    1 year ago

    Its called a benchmark, used by surveyors as a known point from which to take readings. We had a benchmark on the edge of of our property in the town where In grew up. It was a square, white marble column, like a truncated obelisk with the point cut off to make a 4" square flat top, buried at the roadside and standing a couple inches proud of the grass. It had a cross with a dot in the middle, and a geodetic ID number engraved on the top.

    Nailed it with the lawnmower once or twice. That’d really put the Fear in you.

    • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      My grandma has a little concrete thing like that that marks where her property ends (or where 1 part of it ends, legally it’s 2 rectangles sharing a side). Once after not mowing for like a month and a half I forgot it was there and totally ruined the freshly replaced blades 🥲

  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9517·
    1 year ago

    Control point for ley lines. Keeps the magic channeled to prevent chaos from breaking out.

    • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      366·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, this. You can step on one, and it’s fine. Just don’t step on two and complete the circuit, it’s like boofing the third rail.

    • Angry_Autist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1736·
      1 year ago

      I left reddit partially because every fuckdamn top comment in an info request thread was a joke.

      You guys seriously going to make that the norm here too?

      • DUMBASS@leminal.spaceEnglish
        311·
        1 year ago

        You guys seriously going to make that the norm here too?

        Well we like to have a little fun around here, keep it loosey goosey ya know, a little bit of sillyness goes a long way.

          • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
            51·
            1 year ago

            you realize, of course, that with your 2m old account you are part of the invading force in that simile?

            • Angry_Autist@lemmy.worldEnglish
              13·
              1 year ago

              There are activist mods and admins here on lemmy just like reddit, you know it and I know it so let’s not pretend.

              I’ve been on the internet since before it had pictures, and every one of you Eternal Septemberers are invaders on my sacred land.

  • wise_pancake@lemmy.caEnglish
    485·
    1 year ago

    It controls where true north is, and if you remove it that will really mess with geographers and surveyors

  • No_Eponym@lemmy.caEnglish
    162·
    1 year ago

    < We reach/tether >

    < through Control Points >

    < into the Bureau/House >

    • KreekyBonez@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      once you start to notice them, you’ll never stop seeing them everywhere.

      this one is a magnetic nail, so it can be found more easily with a metal detector, which is pretty handy when there’s a foot or two of snow on the ground.

      you’ll also see crosses, squares, and triangles carved out in stone, as well as the super common drill holes in concrete, which are typically only for temporary points.

      I’ve found 100+ year old control points drilled into old stone walls, and they can still check within like ¼" of the new maps.

  • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    1 year ago

    Mind control relay. You can try to remove it but are mentally incapable unless you have a tinfoil hat.