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FoolInTheDesert t1_j7fred3 wrote

It's common in older cities. For example in Arizona, in cities like Bisbee and Tombstone, you can find multiple section corners and property corners set in close proximity to each other by different surveyors. In one case I know of 6 different pins meant to be the same point all spread out over an 8sqft area. How do you resolve this? Well a surveyor has to dig through records and try to figure out which point to hold, OR in many cases you might have to go testify in court for it to get settled because property owners will sue each other. In many cases we had to spend a day collecting control data and then had to calculate the correct pin location and set our own more accurate pin with our survey data on it. It can get complicated!

Surveyor errors are actually common and have led to many a state/national border or property line dispute and ongoing design, infrastructure layout issues, etc. to this day all over the country!

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Forsaken_Champion722 t1_j7fp02o wrote

That's entirely possible. There is a story about colonial soldiers firing at each other in the Seven Years War. Apparently, George Washington rode out between them with his arms outstretched and got them to stop. I don't know if the story is entirely true, but it helped make Washington a hero throughout the 13 colonies.

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Naqoy t1_j7fos3w wrote

> Tidigare utgjorde vi Riksantikvarieämbetets arkeologiska uppdragsverksamhet (UV) men den 1 januari 2015 flyttades verksamheten över till Statens historiska museer (SHMM) och bytte då namn till Arkeologerna. I Riksantikvarieämbetets regi har vi funnits sedan 1950-talet.

So the actual government entity that does field archeology on behalf of the national museums is called Arkeologerna since 2015.

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AlRedditore t1_j7fo4wy wrote

So that’s why the ancient Babylonian symbols of kingship were the rod and the ruler.

Ruler I can imagine why, it established the length of the foot or unit of measurement. The rod I was not sure about…but maybe they buried it to mark the border of the field.

In ancient Egypt the symbol was a shepherds crook. Why didn’t they also use a rod? Probably because due to the annual Nile floods burying one would have been useless.

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StekenDeluxe t1_j7flv7o wrote

Good point.

I'll add, however, that a Norwegian law book dating from the 12th century demands a higher fine for killing a "lap dog" than for killing a "hunting dog." This could, perhaps, be seen as a possible indication that at least not long after the end of the Viking Era itself, old-timey Scandinavians put a premium on "unemployed" dogs, i.e. pets.

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warhead71 t1_j7fjp0i wrote

Construction, battle in orderly manners and military infrastructure (supply and retreat) is what Roman’s at this point did best. They were usual not good when things became chaotic - but legions were at this point given a lot of autonomy - and Caesar’s troop had a lot of experience. Caesar wanted a lot of slaves/gold - I would think he best chance to win would be to slaughter as many as his south-Gaelic Allie’s and plunder the Roman’s supplies - while some troop keep Caesar occupied

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