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We have seen that one of the ways to mark out the property was using stone walls and fences or hedges, even though those enclosures were more likely to be erected to keep the livestock out of the crops. The most common and widespread way of identifying the properties was to mark the boundaries of the land or upland in question, but there were other systems to indicate the different ownership of adjoining land.
Back in the 1920s, Barandiaran noted that it was common in the Basque Country to use stones embedded in the land to mark the boundaries of a private or communal plot<ref>José Miguel de BARANDIARAN. ''El mundo en la mente popular vasca''. Zarauz:1960, p. 154.</ref>. Even though the concept is the same, we make a distinction between the signs used to demarcate private properties and the so-called jurisdiction boundary stones that marked the limits of adjacent municipal districts.
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