You may meet on your hike in the forest one of these strange markers left on rocks or on erected stones. These markers are crosses, lis flowers or other symbols.

These boundary stones were aimed at delineating the forest space kept for the lord, probably as a hunting ground ; the first boundary stones are thought to date back to the end of Middle.

The boundary stones with lis flowers are more recent and date back to the end of the 17 th Century. During the reform of the Water and Forest Safety System in 1669, land surveyors came to mark the royal forests in order to demarcate the royal area from the land belonging to the inhabitants of the villages. This birth of the future ONF (Forest National Organisation) took place in labour pains for a great number of Pyrenean communities ; indeed, wood was the only resource for building, heating and trade. Within a few years, the forest regulation reduced the mountain people to a state of dire poverty and provoked their anger.

Nowadays the boundary stones have no function anymore and we have more or less forgotten them ; regularly well cared for and repainted, they still give in Donezan the limits of the District.