Spring Equinox 2010
Chan de Arquiña, Pontevedra
We headed out in the afternoon - it had been raining heavily all morning, but by afternoon it was cheering up a bit. We couldn't find any useful directions on how to get there, and it doesn't appear on google maps either, so we headed for the rough area and crossed our fingers. As we got futher inland, and higher up, the fog got thicker and thicker. Eventually, we found a picnic area that looked hopeful, and asked a man there if we were in the right place - he told us were to go (about a mile further down the road), and added that with this much fog, we might not find it! We found the other picnic area, and started walking around, with an ever increasing sense of hopelessness - running over to every big rock visible through the dense fog, only to be disappointed. We decided to try the other side of the parking area, and eventually, we saw it on top of a hill (or sticking out from the top). It's quite low, but that's probably because it hasn't been fully excavated - bear in mind that these things were covered over with earth originally, so they weren't even designed to be seen with the bare rocks showing.
I noticed a series of deep indentations in the top (second picture), but we couldn't decide if they were modern defacing (maybe a farmer had stuck a fence across the top of it once).
The best thing with this one was standing in the forest, completely surrounded by fog. With your back to the modern picnic tables, you could be in any time period ever. The true time-machines!
Vic
We headed out in the afternoon - it had been raining heavily all morning, but by afternoon it was cheering up a bit. We couldn't find any useful directions on how to get there, and it doesn't appear on google maps either, so we headed for the rough area and crossed our fingers. As we got futher inland, and higher up, the fog got thicker and thicker. Eventually, we found a picnic area that looked hopeful, and asked a man there if we were in the right place - he told us were to go (about a mile further down the road), and added that with this much fog, we might not find it! We found the other picnic area, and started walking around, with an ever increasing sense of hopelessness - running over to every big rock visible through the dense fog, only to be disappointed. We decided to try the other side of the parking area, and eventually, we saw it on top of a hill (or sticking out from the top). It's quite low, but that's probably because it hasn't been fully excavated - bear in mind that these things were covered over with earth originally, so they weren't even designed to be seen with the bare rocks showing.
I noticed a series of deep indentations in the top (second picture), but we couldn't decide if they were modern defacing (maybe a farmer had stuck a fence across the top of it once).The best thing with this one was standing in the forest, completely surrounded by fog. With your back to the modern picnic tables, you could be in any time period ever. The true time-machines!
Vic
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