Land & Boundaries
Reading the Old Plats: A Field Guide to the Stories Hidden in Survey Records
How to read title blocks, bearings, monuments, notes, linework, and historical context without mistaking a beautiful drawing for the whole survey.
From the Index
Tag: Boundary Evidence
Monuments, records, occupation, and other evidence used to understand the location and identity of boundaries.
Land & Boundaries
Small Mark, Big Meaning: How Survey Monuments Carry Boundaries Through Time
A brass disk, stone, pipe, or driven rod may look small, but its record can preserve a boundary or geodetic position across generations.
Land & Boundaries
Roman Surveyors and the Corpus Agrimensorum: Law Written on the Landscape
Roman agrimensores combined angle-setting, land division, maps, boundary law, and dispute work in a profession whose surviving writings still sound unexpectedly practical.