Buckets and buckets of rock art! And some lovely tombs. Where's Annexus Quam when you need him?

I'll look a few bits up and post at the weekend.

ooooooooh you lucky bugger!
Annexus is definitely your man
I remember when he posted these fellas, I'd love to see 'em.
http://www.spanelsko.info/img/F00037.jpg
This site might whet your apetite for some later prehistory
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/celtic/ekeltoi/index.html

I know it's a long way from Cornwall to Tyneside, but you may still have just heard my scream of envy ;)

I can't offer any links or advice, only envious best wishes, have a grand time MrH. And if you do go see any RA, take oodles of photos please!

When I was there in spring I was lucky to hook up with the venerable Mr Quamm for some local hints. Well, I spent a week camped around the peninsula near Santiago where the main town is Muros. I spent a whole day with their nearest equivalent of an OS map, and found not one of the 8 marked rocks I looked for. Annexus scoffed and came over the next day with his car, and we went back looking for them - and again, found nothing.

Just a warning!

There's one that's signposted from a road near Muros called Laxas das Rodas which is relatively easy to find:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gyrus/128801236/

There's also plenty more "hotspots" further south from Santiago that I gather are signposted, but I didn't make it there.

Just before I left, Annexus got chatting to the guy who runs the campsite at Ancoradoiro (past Mount Louro from Muros), and it turns out he knew the local rock art quite well. His tip (which I had to put under my hat for "next time") was to contact the local council. Apparently they're finding new stuff along that coast constantly, and he said they'd probably be keen to show keen "amateurs" as well as pro researchers around. Worth a try. As ever, speaking Spanish (or even better Galego!) would be a boon.

Happy hunting!

For those of you who were jealous of me going to Galicia...don't feel too bad. We had the most torential rain and wind..the same gales that drove the round the world yachtsmen back into port...and spent much of the time sat in bars eating and drinking. Did get to visit one Dolmen at Axeitos. Very well signposted from road and sits in its own little parkland complete with childrens play area. Also visited the promontary settlement at Castro Barona, a fantastic site that is reached by crossing a causeway to a rocky outcrop filled with hut circles. Unfortunatly the rain was coming in sideways at about 80 mph and we had to take shelter behind a wall before giving in and heading back to the car. The photos I took that morning would be the last of the holiday as my camera decided it did not like Spanish rain and refused to take anymore until I got it home yesterday and plugged it in to the computer.

As was said before I went, sites are not easy to find. We did see a sign for some petroglifo (rockart) but as the camera was kaputt and it was still raining I did not bother stopping. We also followed signposts along the Route of the Dolmens..but failed to see any!

The museum at Ponteverdra had some nice Bronze Age including two nice bits of rockart and in the village we were staying in at Porto de Son there is an interpretation centre for the castro at Barona. Although it is all in Spanish there was enough visible info to give me some idea as to what was going on. Plus they had some useful leaflets on where to find the best rockart.

The rain stopped as we took the hire car back to santiago and ensconsed ourselves in medieval history..Santiago is a great place for a couple of day of culture...with no shortage of bars and eating places..but not much in the way of pagan sites.

Mr H