All,
With most of the snow gone I was able to resume stone searching today, and with Jessica and Gloria (Glowardz) along we were able to find about 1/3 of what we were looking for. Not a great day in quantity, but one of them made the day worthwhile.
After meeting Gloria along 206 in Hammonton, we proceeded along the Swamp Branch looking for 4 stones. One of them I believe was incised but we were not able to find it. A future day with Al's help may flush it out. Our first find was one hidden below the leaves that I stepped on.
The next one was a basic stone and unremarkable.
This next photo has a little bit of history to it. It is the actual Wharton Survey teams field notes for a stone along the Albertson Branch. You can see in the top right circled in yellow, the day was December 19, 1955 and the weather was clear and cold. You can also see at the bottom right circled in yellow it was monument NJ48H they were installing. But most importantly it is naming the stone with the letters JE. Could the stone be inscribed JE, or are they for some reason using the letters for their own purpose?
I was determined to find out, so off to the Albertson Branch we headed until we could go no more in my car. On foot we traveled for over a quarter mile until the answer was in front of us.
But something did not seem right to Gloria. First, the NJ48H monument.
Then the stone.
It appears the J is backwards. How can that be!
However, a closer examination shows that it is not a J at all, but the letter "Eye." The survey team had made a mistake.
On the way back we stopped to examine a sawmill the Scott had shown me a few years back, and while there Jessica ran me over with my car. She got out and took this photo.
I was able to recover quickly and we headed to Atsion and then to Friendship Bog to look for two more stones. Again, I will need Al's help one day to find those because we came up empty. With the day over I returned Gloria to her car and we parted ways until the next time.
Guy
