Chan da Auga da Laxe
Posted by: angeldpv
N 42° 08.026 W 008° 42.835
29T E 523643 N 4664667
Swords, shields and axes petroghlyps.
Waymark Code: WM41X
Location: Spain
Date Posted: 11/23/2005
Views: 43
Placed in Gondomar, Spain in a place called "chan de auga da laxe" located in a mountain called "Monte dos Arruidos". This impressive rock engravings are swords, one of them it´s two meters long, shields and axes. There are another rock engravings of axes close to this one. This rock engravings are very important because they are very big. Recently an archeologists painted them with a kind of paint that they say it doesn´t damage the engraving. The purposal for this was to make them more visible and encourage people to visit them.
Type of Pictograph: Petroglyph
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