Campo Lameiro Petroglyphs
Nearly a hundred carved rocks crowd a single Galician hillside, crowned by the great spear-pierced stag of Laxe dos Carballos — an emblem of Europe's Atlantic rock art.
In the granite hills above the Lérez valley in Pontevedra, Galicia, around a hundred carved rocks lie scattered among oaks and gorse — one of Europe's densest concentrations of Atlantic rock art. Bronze Age communities pecked deer, horses, labyrinths and cup-and-ring circles into the stone roughly 4,000 years ago; the great stag of Laxe dos Carballos, bristling with spears, has become the emblem of the whole tradition. Recorded in Ramón Sobrino Buhigas's 1935 Corpus Petroglyphorum Gallaeciae, the area opened in 2011 as Galicia's first archaeological park, with a 3 km trail, an interpretation centre and a reconstructed Bronze Age village.
Notable Features
- ◦ Laxe dos Carballos: a great stag pierced by spears
- ◦ Around 100 carved rocks in a 22-hectare park
- ◦ Interpretation centre and reconstructed Bronze Age village