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Singing Menhir Hito.
The roads where the plateau is close, we return to resume the path of standing stones and started some time ago. In Valdeolea menhirs, we were easily seen with a alignment by proximity.
Archaeologists Castellanos, Miguel Angel Moreno, and Germain put us Delibes on the trail of a greater dimension in this alignment. And indeed, if we use the information available at www.megalitos.es, conducted by the former, we see the continuation of this trace to the province of Burgos.
Alignment of menhirs
The meeting with the Landmark Singing spectacular monument was completely accidental.Staying at the near-Casa Revilla de Pomar Florencio. In a lively conversation after dinner with the owners of the hotel, came to the fore the issue of menhir. Although it was near midnight, the next day I get up early for other matters, so I decided to visit him at the time. - The header photo is from that visit-
This picture tries to reflect the feeling to meet the huge rock, is a kind of defiance amid the moor iergue watching impassively as the stars revolve around it from its more than 3 meters in height. Immediately we wonder about its meaning, after all is a symbol, and our curiosity drives us to try to decipher it. For this we turn to the little information we have. Before referred to the article and Moreno Gallo and Delibes de Castro. It presents the results of the excavation of a site near Landmark Canto similar characteristics. In this place "The cost of the mill", we find the remains of a menhir-like hand. In this place was built a burial mound that gives us additional information.
The slope of the mill. Before excavation.
(Moreno Gallo, Delibes de Castro 2006)
It's amazing how they put these people care for thousands of years that his work will endure.Digging into the base has discovered the foundation of the monument. This is a recess cut into the limestone soil of the moor for good vertical lift of rock.
Foundations of Menhir. Cuesta del Molino.
(Moreno Gallo, Delibes de Castro 2006)
The dating of the menhirs is an uncomfortable task for archaeologists, as it simply rocks that rise above the ground. If additional elements are not the dating is uncertain.
In this case,-The-Mill hill, in the excavation of the mound were found human remains and charred fragments at the base of the menhir. With the C14 dating of these remains, as well as ceramic fragments, one can deduce an age of 4000 years for the monument.
Undoubtedly these stones visible at a great distance were not randomly located, marked an important place for the builders. I think we can see two ways, either the place has a harmony of telluric forces, which for those people in close contact with nature were evident and so marked and used to deposit their dead. Or wanted to give the place a special significance, such as a territorial marker, lifting their stone symbols, and buried there at the most relevant to your clan. Everyone thinks what they like, I say.
Regardless of objective considerations, the place is captivating, and the night visit alone an unsettling experience.
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