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The group of
engravings in Peņa Lostroso is located in the Ebro river
headwaters, about 980 meters high, in the natural
environment of the Hijedo Mountain, in Las Rozas de
Valdearroyo, between a landscape of sandstone crags and
several wooded spots of oak grove and pine grove. It is a continuous frieze of engravings that
covers two vertical walls in a rocky overhang open to the
SW and SSE. 22 long figures utter in arch that go with
another similar one, but bigger, in which a weapon
outline has been inscribed. This last one has been
moulded more with low relief technique than simple
engraved trace and defines the outline of a dagger in
horizontal with wide triangular blade and
"increasing" handle. Surrounding this central
icon other semicircular trace can be observed, in the
superior part and two other obliques ones in the inferior
one that end in five lines as "fringes". As a
whole, the engraved surface reachs a lenght of 7,40
meters. The biggest figure has a height of 1,10 meters
and the other ones average is 70 centimeters. This
interesting succession of anthropomorphic
schematitations, that seems to represent hierarchic order
of intragroup relations, finds formal narrow parallel in
other two close places with engravings, as Portillo Viejo
and El Redular, also in Hijedo Mountain region. From the
analysis of its weapon outlines, the first periods of the
Bronze Age (2.000-1.800 B.C) can be determined, as the
moment of their execution.
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