I know the feelings, but sometimes it helps to go back. On our recent
DEDK expedition we found a few "lost" boundary markers using common sence and
putting one in the demarcation commisions shoes, and we are getting better and
better at it.
Attached two photos of lost boundary markers from DEDK:
10.jpg: Border marker #10. Found by Hans-Peter after long searching.
Some of the dirt around have been clearing to confirm the finding. The marker
was by the joining of two fences. The picture is taken just south of the marker
inside Germany. Note on attached map from the 1920 agreement that the border
leaves the Krusau stream to include the entire mill in Germany, otherwise it
would have been split in two countries. The mill is now abandoned and the area
is a mess, as a used car dealer has his car graveyard there. We should have
kept in there in 1920, but now it too late. Denmark by the way got some other
land in return, I am not sure where, but have an idea.
19a.jpg: Border marker 19a. Found by me. Second attempt. Last
time we had 19 and 20 and walked between the two, but saw nothing.
I tried to walk it again, and in the clearing found this stone with a line
on top. It was pure lock. I told Peter of my finding and asked
him to find it himself: he walked right passed it, but again he saw
the line. Again on this photo we have cleared some dirt around it. Enclosed
it also an official 1920 map of the area.
kobbermolle-map.jpg: The official 1920 border map from the eastern
side of the border. We have located all markers from this end, except 11 (I gave
up after having mud to my knees), and 3 (on the Danish side). This
area is very difficult to access.
Hope you enjoy it.
Jesper
>- I consider the moresnet-border-expedition as completed, the
missing
>bordermarkers not being found by earlier trips of other
bordermen. But
>sometimes it aches a little: couldn't that one or other
marker be hidden in
>a backyard or buried under the ground? Shouldn't I
one day etc.etc.?