Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Bidasoa-Txingudi
Date: Mar 08, 2001 @ 09:00
Author: Brendan Whyte ("Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@...>)
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Aha! This tourist attraction was shown in the Pyrenees episode of
"frontiers", the BBC programme.
Brendan


>From: Peter Smaardijk <peter.smaardijk@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Bidasoa-Txingudi
>Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 09:41:11 +0100
>
>michael donner wrote:
>
> > great
> > thank you again
> > & i will keep working on the treaty text link
> >
> > also
> > neither my french nor eyesight are very good
> > but are you talking about the same st martin stone as referred to in
> > http://www.esj-lille.fr/atelier/explo/EPOQUE/NEP_06.HTM
> >
> > perhaps i only misconstrued the meaning of the date 1375 in relation to
>the
> > stone depicted
> > but i also cant recall any of eefs that look anything like this
> >
> > m
>
>Yes, they're talking about the same stone here, but I will check with the
>photograph I made and with
>other sources, because there seems to be a difference between the stone in
>the picture on that site
>and border stone 262. In the 1856 treaty it says about stone 262:
>
>"At 530 metres of the previous sign, on the pass and at one metre of St.
>Martins stone which is 640
>metres east of the summit of L�ch� and 1260 metres west of the Arlas peak."
>
>The St. Martins stone is probably a very old one, but in 1856 they
>obviously decided to put another
>marker beside it.
>
>The treaty between the two valley was concluded in 1375. A payment of three
>cows is made to the
>Roncal/Erronkari valley, for the right of the Bar�tounais to let their
>cattle graze on Roncalese
>territory. The payment is made each year on July 13th. In the article it
>says that they have turned
>it into a veritable touristical highlight, attracting some 3000 visitors.
>
>Now for the scan of that little map, I ask you to be a little more patient
>still, because of some
>technical problems (I made the scan, but there's obviously something wrong
>with it, as my browser
>crashes when I try to open it...). But it's coming, I promise you.
>
>Peter
>

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