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I like that guess.Did you follow it? My guess would be straight on at the roundabout.
Looks like a photoshop image to me...just sayin'!My guess that it's subliminal advertising by a business or an Albergue. Or maybe it's a sign that only you can see. Whilst walking from Porto every day this sign followed me around, I too was curious as to what it meant. Guess it's just another magical unexplained mystery of the Camino or subliminal advertising, you choose View attachment 59597
You could be right although it appeared to be square aluminium background sprayed red and stencil of what looks like moon in white. I thought it was clever way to advertise Albergue of cafe in a subliminal way and it worked apart from it led nowhere and stopped before Santiago. Although it did put me in mind of chocolate and I had craven for well known bar that helps you walk, rest and playLooks like a photoshop image to me...just sayin'!
Seen in Roxos on the way to Finisterre, a couple km outside of Santiago. Would love more information if you've got it. Thanks!View attachment 59572
One of those funny looking concrete treesWow, Derry, I thought you did the photoshopping as the whole thing looked like it. Now I know it really is real and attached to that tree!
Nooo, I meant the whole thing as in the "thing", not the tree!One of those funny looking concrete trees
This is an area with petroglyphs and with walks leading to them. I wonder whether this is a waymarker for such a route or pointing to such a site. Not everything has to do with pilgrims and pilgrimage routes. There is an interpretation centre in Villestro which is close to Roxos and their logo resembles the symbol in your photo.Seen in Roxos on the way to Finisterre, a couple km outside of Santiago.
I recognize it, as in I've seen it before, but I also have no idea what it means.Seen in Roxos on the way to Finisterre, a couple km outside of Santiago. Would love more information if you've got it. Thanks!View attachment 59572
I checked for coordinates in the file. None there. I also did a Google image search with no match and few results anyway. And I also looked at Google maps for a rotary/roundabout without seeing anything.Does anybody know where it is - as in co-ordinates?
I don't have a clue what it is but your suggestion makes sense to me. Indicates the direction of a flow of some kind and some regulating device in the middle?buried pipes & cables
Nice theory but marking looks a little to symmetrical and precise to be utility marking that from your video and experience are more haphazardly produced but nice suggestion and interesting vidWe rely on a rainbow of graffiti to identify buried pipes & cables
One of those funny looking concrete trees
I can see that on this forum, it really is about the quality of the post...
42.883, -8.607Does anybody know where it is - as in co-ordinates?
My, my - is that really the timeOr, the postette.
Thank you!42.883, -8.607
It reminds me of astrology symbols - Earth / Mercury / Neptune. Maybe it means "This is the way to the sunset."Seen in Roxos on the way to Finisterre, a couple km outside of Santiago. Would love more information if you've got it. Thanks!
Maybe a brass marker with data is supposed to be there but because it is in the road the arrows are pointing to the location where the metal marker is.I would be inclined to suggest a surveying mark. Although I'd be more convinced if there were a brass pin in the centre.
A cross with the centre missing and a circle are common markers indicating a survey point.
A flat line with legs is often used as a marker of a benchmark for elevation.
Whether those markers are universal, I don't know.
Brilliant!utility survey to show a manhole and the layout of the pipes
That's a British Ordnance Survey benchmark (recorded height above mean sea level Newlyn) - not much use in Spain I'm afraidGoogled 'benchmark surveyor symbols'
Last Spring when I did the CI I went off-piste (deliberately) one day and was amazed to find one road junction plastered with yellow arrow - slowly it dawned on me that they were markings for the local cycle club (little bikes and START and FINISH marks, oddly in English!)I wonder whether there are (local) guys out there who amuse themselves with creating mysterious drawings just to drive enquiring pilgrim minds nuts . There are some more artistically looking "rock paintings" elsewhere on the camino francés that nobody here has been able to explain yet. My guess is still that they are the result of some kind of art happening.
So with all the comments in the thread so far, what I now "see" is the description of two flows and a device that allows one flow to go from left to right and another one in a perpendicular direction, depending on the status of the device. Or just the location where two different flows cross without interaction. Grrrr ... . @ja2z20, is this painted on the road, on a pavement or on a wall?
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KSO (keep straight on) at cross roads? TL (or TR) Turn Left (or Turn Right) at this point?I wonder whether there are (local) guys out there who amuse themselves with creating mysterious drawings just to drive enquiring pilgrim minds nuts . There are some more artistically looking "rock paintings" elsewhere on the camino francés that nobody here has been able to explain yet. My guess is still that they are the result of some kind of art happening.
So with all the comments in the thread so far, what I now "see" is the description of two flows and a device that allows one flow to go from left to right and another one in a perpendicular direction, depending on the status of the device. Or just the location where two different flows cross without interaction. Grrrr ... . @ja2z20, is this painted on the road, on a pavement or on a wall?
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Oh THAT bar! Funnily enough it shows up plainly on Google Streetview but not Google Earth!View attachment 59626
Vinos - Tapas - Bocadillos. Just the place in Roxos for a pilgrim to stop and investigate the Mystery of the Symbol .
Google image search cannot find anything even approximating the symbol...Seen in Roxos on the way to Finisterre, a couple km outside of Santiago. Would love more information if you've got it. Thanks!View attachment 59572
NO! I feel Camino number ten calling. Can you get to Mars using Ryanair?That marking was in an early Twilight Zone episode in which a U.S. spacecraft crashes on Mars, and the crew find themselves seeing that symbol along what appears to be a path. It soon becomes clear that the space ship crew has stumbled upon the Martian Camino, and so they start walking and following the symbols and finally arrive at . . . . well, I don't want to spoil it for those that haven't seen it, or remember it.
They could certainly form the basis for one of those weird facts "documentaries" . . . Strange Signs Along The Camino - Could They Be A Message From Outer Space? * where they spend an hour postulating that they are navigation markers for ETs/tribal markings from some cabalistic sect/pointers to the location of a buried Inca treasure/clues to the whereabouts of looted Nazi gold dredged up from a sunken U-boat before concluding that no, they have no idea what they are either!That marking was in an early Twilight Zone episode in which a U.S. spacecraft crashes on Mars, and the crew find themselves seeing that symbol along what appears to be a path. It soon becomes clear that the space ship crew has stumbled upon the Martian Camino, and so they start walking and following the symbols and finally arrive at . . . . well, I don't want to spoil it for those that haven't seen it, or remember it.
That would be the Martian Sheen Camino "The Milky Way"?That marking was in an early Twilight Zone episode in which a U.S. spacecraft crashes on Mars, and the crew find themselves seeing that symbol along what appears to be a path. It soon becomes clear that the space ship crew has stumbled upon the Martian Camino, and so they start walking and following the symbols and finally arrive at . . . . well, I don't want to spoil it for those that haven't seen it, or remember it.
Michael O'Leary will certainly sell you a flight to Mars. Although, strictly speaking, the flight lands on the neighbouring planet.NO! I feel Camino number ten calling. Can you get to Mars using Ryanair?
Sigh. This post is a week too late. Next year!And you are literally walking right past some of those petroglyphs near Roxos!
No Hunting without the Consent of Owners ( square red sign with points facing up/ down /left /right with a white circle )My guess that it's subliminal advertising by a business or an Albergue. Or maybe it's a sign that only you can see. Whilst walking from Porto every day this sign followed me around, I too was curious as to what it meant. Guess it's just another magical unexplained mystery of the Camino or subliminal advertising, you choose View attachment 59597
I would have suggested that you google that very site but I see you found it yourself. they have no need to show pictures or symbols of guns they all know what they are from childhood. you might also check out this in case you ever wounded what all those little bird of black and white metal signs and sometimes painted on rocks all over rural Spain are. https://www.spainbuddy.com/hunting-signs-in-spain/And this article supports what your saying,
I've seen signs with a similar meaning in the US - but they're usually perforated with bullet holes!No Hunting without the Consent of Owners ( square red sign with points facing up/ down /left /right with a white circle )