Surveyor’s Chain Pins (Early Land Measuring Tools)
Description
These steel pins were used by surveyors to mark distance while measuring land with a Gunter’s chain, the standard surveying tool from the 1600s through the early 1900s. As the chain was stretched across the ground, each pin was placed at the end of a measured length, allowing surveyors to track progress accurately over long distances.
Simple yet essential, chain pins helped define property boundaries, roads, and town layouts during America’s period of expansion and development.
