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Collado de Sejos
is located in the dividing waters of Nansa and Saja
rivers headwaters, about 1500 meters high, in a zone of
open natural grazing land between the sandstone crags and
conglomerate of Cueto de la Helguera (1729 meters) and
Cuquillo (1673 meters). Besides natural pass, the hill
coincides with the limit between the administrative
divisions of Polaciones and Mancomunidad de
Campoo-Cabuerniga, although the remains with schamatic
art located in the last one. The group is formed of
five orthostatus of sandstones carved in its base. Two of
them present in its bigger faces with two engravings of
anthropomorphic root. Nowadays, they are lying on the
surface, scatteredin an area of about 75 squared meters.
The archeologic excavation in this area (Bueno et alii,
1985) allowed to document the footprint of its originals.
The engravings show two rectangular figures of long
side in vertical and superior utter in arch. In one case,
the design is subdivided in five horizontal floors
embellished with continous series of zigzag. Besides, at
its left, a dagger vertical outline or short sword of
wide triangular blade and straight handle. Over the
surface of the figures several cazoletas are also
distributed.
The group of Sejos has narrow parallel iconographics
with the anthropomorphic idols of Peña Tu (Asturias) and
Tabuyo del Monte (Leon), as well as with the closer of
Hoyo de la Gándara (San Sebastián de Garabandal,
Cantabria). More or less explicit of attributes strictly
anthropomorphics, they are solutions of human figurations
that seem to look more like the social entity expresion
than the phisic identification of an individual. Looking
at the kind of weapons recognized in some of the samples,
it can be said that the time when these engravings were
made is the beginning of the Bronze Age.
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