Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Saint Martin Stone<br/>
Date: Mar 09, 2001 @ 08:05<br/>
Author: Peter Smaardijk (Peter Smaardijk &lt;peter.smaardijk@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1401956748">Peter Smaardijk wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; &gt; perhaps too there are still older ones i am not aware of<br/>
&gt; &gt; which needless to say i would be thrilled to learn about<br/>
&gt; &gt;<br/>
&gt; &gt;<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt; Well, I know of a particularly nice one on the Dutch-Belgian border. Of course this is also doubled<br/>
&gt; by a boundary marker of the standard type, but it is still there. It stands in the border village of<br/>
&gt; Overslag, and as I recall it has the name Oostenrijk (=Austria) on it at the Belgian side. So the<br/>
&gt; stone probably dates back to the 18th century, when this part of Belgium (actually, most of it) was<br/>
&gt; part of the Austrian empire. Hopefully Eef can make a picture of it when he&#39;s coming to this one on<br/>
&gt; one of the next stages of his journey...<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt; Peter S.<br/>
&gt;<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Confirmed: I just found a tiny picture of one of the Austrian border stones, with a standard Dutch one<br/>
in the background. It says here that there are Austrian border markers (plural!) in this village,<br/>
dating back to the reign of Margaret of Austria. I think that was the 18th century.<br/>
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Look for Overslag<br/>
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Peter S.</div>