Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] good fellow rock
Date: Mar 30, 2001 @ 15:28
Author: michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
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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/> http://notre.savoie.free.fr/
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>Peter S.
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>michael donner wrote:
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>> <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
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>> & 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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