Subject: Re: Marcel
Date: Dec 04, 2001 @ 01:47
Author: orc@orcoast.com (orc@...)
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it is a thin line but when modern stones actually abut or are combined with=
their predecessors it might be fair to say the predecessors are still regu=
lar working rocks but i agree if the ancients dont touch working rocks & ar=
ent mentioned in the text as working rocks then clearly they have gone the w=
ay of all other ghosts

it hardly seems fair but thats punctology for you

m



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

> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., <marcelmiquel@n...> wrote:

> (...)I think the "pedra dreta" as a undisputed boundary limit is

> clear, because the marker number 1 is placed there, and according the

> delimitation act :"next to the old stone who has been the boundary of

> > Llívia, Ur and Càldegues". So we can assume that from 1660 from

> 1868 this stone was a international boundary marker "de facto",

> despite it was not mentioned in a treaty, just because a treaty of

> limits didn't exist.

>

> Do (or don't) I understand correctly that it isn't a working stone

> anymore? Because I see here the Pyrenean habit of putting boundary

> stones (new ones) next to older boundary stones, which releaves the

> old one of its duty. This happened at both St. Martins Stone and

> Irumugak, if I recall correctly.

>

> Peter S.