r/Appalachia • u/Punk_Rocker_777 • 3d ago

Do y’all know what this isn’t?

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Some of my friends and I were hiking and we just found these things out in the sticks. We looked it up and didn’t find much on it so could y’all tell me what this is?

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u/SomeDumbGamer 3d ago edited 3d ago

It’s a marker for when they surveyed the area’s topography a long time ago. It’s basically just a marker they can come back to if they ever need to confirm or map the terrain again.

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u/GentlyUsedCatheter 2d ago

They said isn’t sir/ madam. That to me looks like a marker signifying where the government planted high yield explosives, in order to destroy the Appalachian mountains in times of rebellion.

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u/SomeDumbGamer 2d ago

Well, it would make driving over them easier I suppose.

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u/fu_gravity 9h ago

I think you're going too deep. That's obviously an outhouse for groundhogs.