Figueirido´s Petroglyph
During the last years some historians and archeologists have found in Barbanza dozens of rock art signs dating from the Bronze Age. Most of these petroglyphs are situated in Porto do Son, but Riveira has one of the best signs of rock art, with enviable access. In the so-called Pedra das Cabras, Figueirido place – going from Riveira to Palmeira – can be watched a big-sized zoomorphic representation. It consists of some deer-like animals, inscribed on the stone in big features.
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| A Pedra das
Cabras é unha mostra de arte dos nossos antepasados. |
Starting from a cuadrangular drawing, four leg-like parallel lines come out from the bottom; from the upper side, the neck and the head very schematic also. It confirms how avant-garde art and its origins are matched through the abstraction. In other hand, the grooves depth, more than usual, may indicate a recent chronology, given the little wearing away.
The access is by diverting from the slip road to Via Rápida (Highway), placed at the Palmeira south entrance in direction to Riveira. 500 m. away from that side road, another asphalted diversion leads to a way where stopping the vehicle is required. The path leads to Pedra das Cabras, beside which an information poster will make richer our knowledge.
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| Com estas gravuras zoomórficas representavam-se cenas de caça. |
Antropomorphic Sirves petroglyphs also reached certain fame. They dated from Middle Age times, but they disappeared. There was a stone similar to Pedra das Cabras near from Dolmen Axeitos.
In San Alberto Mountain can be appreciated several rocks with inscribed stones. They belonged to the Middle Ages and they were marked for separating Couto de Deán, in this case, or other properties. This cross-shaped carvings also appear in Palmeira, in a place known as Pedra da Rá (not the view point). And even other inscription dating from the Middle Ages are found in Corrubedo, behind O Prado Beach. It consists of a drawing that reminds us of a kind of sword or sharpened arm.
As a novelty it may be pointed out that it has appeared 6 or 7 small stonecuts with big, ramified antlers. They have been newly found in Oleiros parish. Searching must still go on in order to have further information. Equally, certain searchers have lately noticed a presumed roman-origin inscription; it is on one of the stones of the San Martiño Oleiros church back wall.
