The second URL does not work.
I think Peter never found any boundary markers between France-Spain (and Andorra).
Jesper
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From: michael donner <m@...>
To: <boundarypoint@egroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2000 8:42 AM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] 2 candidates for oldest boundary monument in the world
> most boundary scholars agree that the modern system of negotiated &
> monumented international boundaries dates only from about the treaty of
> westphalia in 1648 following the thirty years war
>
> however http://www.esj-lille.fr/atelier/explo/EPOQUE/NEP_06.HTM shows a
> photo & tells the story in french of a 1375 boundary monument on the french
> spanish border in the pyrenees that is said to have been the focal point of
> an annual ceremony of friendship held without fail ever since this monument
> was first installed according the terms of the treaty of roncal
>
> it is known today as monument 262 or saint martins stone
> in honor of the patron of boundary stones
> as also of drunks & innkeepers
>
>
> but there may also be an even older boundary marker on the other side of france
>
> http://republicaine-lorrain.fr/tourisme/bitche/breintenstein.htm shows a
> photo & tells also in french of a prehistoric druidic monument still
> standing on or near the present alsace lorraine subdivisional boundary
>
> it was renovated with christian art in 1787
> after which it became known as the rock of the 12 apostles or of the 3 peters
>
> apparently it has marked intermittently in its different guises a shifting
> international frontier during many centuries
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>
>
> please let me know of any other candidates you may be aware of too
>
> m
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