Iron Age Hill Fort
The second day in Galicia we stumbled across another iron age landscape - a beautiful fort set right against the sea.
You definitely need sturdy walking shoes and a coat - it can get pretty cool on the coast and the track isn't marked very well. Park up by the cafe and find the track that leads along a pine forest - it's about a twenty minute walk.
It certainly was picturesque - large circle foundations of stone against cold granite skies. Like all old places, my imagination brings the people alive within such a landscape - the call of fisherman, the woman calling the children in. The smell of cooking fish, the stench of animals.
Castro de Borona was a self sufficient settlement surrounded by two walls and consisting of about 20 roundhouses. People loved there from the 1st Century BC to the 1st Century AD - not too long in the scheme of things.
It was also surrounded by a moat,the first line of defence, and then there was a rampart of two almost parallel stone walls filled with sand and stone. As you walk in to the right there would have been a defence tower where the walls narrowed so a cart couldn't pass through. There are other structures believed to be forges but unless you were in the know it was hard to tell.
In the sea beyond surfers bobbed in tiny waves. Sadly this set the tone for the rest of the trip where I'd only surf once. It hadn't been the best weather for surf this trip at all, that's for sure. All that aside though, it was definitely worth the diversion.
Beautiful pictures 🤩
Your imagination of what the place was like with human and animal presence is solid. I was able to picture same as I watched the images. It's a beautiful place.
Looking through the pictures, I'm reminded that there's so much of nature that I have to explore.
Nature is just very beautiful!!!
I love places like that. So tucked away, left alone. There's a completely different feeling to roaming an area that has been (rightfully) fenced off or placed into a museum atmosphere. But yeah, walking through such parts of isolated history has such a different feeling to it. You really feel that sense of time, and your imagination starts to roam.
It's interesting as in the UK, everything is either National Trust or English Heritage, which preserves, restores and maintains places like this - but also fence them off and charge people a lot of money entry. I'm torn - it's important to preserve places like this, but also it's lovely to interact freely with them because they should enjoyed by everyone, not just the elite few.
Yeah it felt weird when I left the UK and came to Armenia and saw some seriously old things that are just left to the elements. There are huge rocks with carvings in them that date back hundreds of years that are just casually left outside with no protection. Even museums just have bronze age items just sitting there without a case around them. But I think the difference is the much higher trust society. There's great pride in the culture and tradition here, whereas that has definitely been lost back home.
While it seemed odd that they'd keep such items outside, I understand it as they want to maintain that tradition, those old items they feel are best where they always have been, and that there's no need to start moving them around.
That's true actually - in some cultures, there's a lost respect and understanding of history at all. Protecting them from the idiots is a necessary act and the rest of us pay for it.
I think it'd be hard to move a fort inside haha.
You know, when they first saved Stonehenge no one really cared about it or understood its value. One guy actually worked to save it and erect the fallen stones.
Omg this looks like a place from a fantasy movie, I can hear loorena mcknennith songs when I see these pictures 💖
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This place is downright glorious. I feel lazy but if I were dropped there I would run all over.
I wonder what that place would have looked like in those times, the people who passed by there, the things they had placed in that place.
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