good fellow
bringing just the perfect next part of the story
twice again both here below & at the col
these important historical details push the possible placement of this rock
all the way back into the 1430s
when savoy had first become world class in earnest
as is now clear
cant recall tho whether we have positively placed any working rock prior to
the 1659 munster yet
as i believe now i must only have dreamt the 1540 date i mentioned below
very silly
so the savoy number 92 would at least seem to be a very good candidate for
oldest stone alive
& almost as promising a one as any of the wingen trio
that is of course assuming any of our 4 aspirants to predate the 1659
stone can indeed be connected with any dates at all
m
>
>There are still people who would like to restore that pretty border stone
>to international service:
><http://notre.savoie.free.fr/> http://notre.savoie.free.fr/
>
>Peter S.
>
>michael donner wrote:
>
>> <http://ecole.nevache.free.fr/PageUniq/frontier.htm>
>>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>
>>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
>
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