Subject: Another old Basque stone
Date: Mar 23, 2001 @ 09:52
Author: peter.smaardijk@and.com (peter.smaardijk@...)
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Just an addition:

--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., Peter Smaardijk <peter.smaardijk@a...>
wrote:
> 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.

.... and has an S (without a year) on the French side, standing for
the municipality of Sare/Sara, I forgot to add....


> 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.