Subject: Another old Basque stone
Date: Mar 23, 2001 @ 09:47
Author: Peter Smaardijk (Peter Smaardijk <peter.smaardijk@...>)
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At http://www.geocities.com/ostadar.geo/o960211_g.htm , boundary marker no. 56 can be seen. The
place is called Trois-Bornes (three markers) in French, and Irumugak (three boundaries) in Basque.
In the Treaty of Bayonne and in an article by Descheemaeker I have found that there is a triangular
stone (I can't make it out on the picture), with the following inscriptions on the two Spanish
sides: B 1767 and E 1645. B stands for the valley of Baztan, which has always enjoyed a considerable
autonomy and was at one stage virtually independent. E is Etxalar, a municipality that is part of
the valley of Bortziri (Five Cities).

Descheemaeker notes the strange name in French, because there are not three markers, but only one
triangular one.

Acc. to the treaty, bdy. marker no. 56 was placed beside the old stone. So there are two. And there
are two in the picture, so that figures.

So another triangular stone, after the Bernard-of-Bombs-fame one and the atczde tripoint. There must
be more...

Peter S.