It looks very much like a piece of rail to me (from a railway). Bochum
might well be the place where the thing was made.
Peter S.
--- "Jan S. Krogh" <la9qca@...> wrote:

> On the border between Lithuania and Russia in the Lithuanian town of
> Vistytis, on the northern shore of Lake Vistytis we found remainings
> of a
> probably German boundary marker from the 19th century. It is still
> the only
> marker to be found on the present ltru boundary at this place.
> The de facto ltru boundary is still the same as the former deru
> boundary.
> (We also found rests of a hexagonal German boundary marker on the
> southern
> shore of the same lake, but of this only 1-2 cm was visible above the
> ground.)
> On this first mentioned marker I could read "BOCHUM 1877 [] ST". I am
> not
> quite sure if it should read 1877 or 1811. The last two digits are
> hard to
> read. Does somebody have some idea what this means?
> Regards,
> Jan
> Vilnius, Lithuania
> http://home.no.net/enklaver
>
>

> ATTACHMENT part 2 image/jpeg name=bochum_1877.JPG

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