Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] good fellow rock
Date: Mar 30, 2001 @ 07:44
Author: Peter Smaardijk (Peter Smaardijk <peter.smaardijk@...>)
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There are still people who would like to restore that pretty border stone to international service:
http://notre.savoie.free.fr/

Peter S.

michael donner wrote:

> http://ecole.nevache.free.fr/PageUniq/frontier.htm shows another handsome
> old international rock evidently still functioning as a french interregional
>
> contemporary interregional boundaries like the french alsace lorraine line
> just revisited at breitenstein etc may generally resemble roman
> interprovincial boundaries in their manner of internalizing former
> international frontiers
>
> & to that extent they may represent our last best hope for hunting down the
> oldest of formerly world class but still working rocks
>
> http://dalmatia.net/belmonte/renaissance/a1493eu.gif shows the france savoy
> international boundary dating from around 1493
> & sets an approximate limit on the possible age of this stone
>
> whether it actually is so old i dont know
> but it looks like it could be pretty old
>
> & thus it could also be in the running for oldest working rock
> the category where i believe we were most recently treated to a 1540
> tho i cant honestly recall the true state of the art in this case
>
> for now this rock just makes a good companion for all those wingen rocks
>
> m