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Multi-periodSite Name: Toros de GuisandoCountry: Spain
NOTE: This site is 12.11 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Castilla y León Type: Sculptured Stone
Nearest Town: Ávila Nearest Village: La Atalaya-El Tiembo
Latitude: 40.300579N Longitude: 4.441677W
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| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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Various hypotheses have been ventured regarding the meaning of these large sculptures, which can be up to 2.5 meters high, like the one from Villanueva del Campillo, at the head of the valley of Amblés, and which always represent boars or bulls, with marked male sexual organs. According to one of these hypotheses, they can be seen as symbols of wealth in a cattle-raising environment, stones marking winter pasture lands (Álvarez Sanchís 2003), or possibly boundary stones indicating borders between different ethnic territories.
Another interpretation, highlights their religious meaning, suggesting that they may have been intended to protect the cattle and ensure the animals' successful procreation
Also worth considering is the funerary symbolism attached to boars in later contexts. Boars combine a number of meanings, with an essential religious basis, in a highly symbolic signifier: the boar as the protector of cattle, territories and groups of people (perhaps similar to a psychopomp, as is suggested for some of the Iberian zoomorphic sculptures). Very recently, a boar was found engraved in the rock under the base of the northern tower of the gate of San Vicente, in the ramparts of the city walls of Ávila (Álvarez Sanchís 2003). Finally, we cannot discount the hypothesis that such animals might be the zoomorphic manifestation of the deity that performed different functions." Read more at e-Keltoi - Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies
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