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. I guess it is sufficient to translate the sentence under the photo: A technician uses a ground-penetrating radar device to search for the location of the medieval wharf/pier/jetty of Padrón.
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If I remember correctly the mention of a stone boat was a false translation. It was just an expression for a special type of boats (very "shallow", I don't know if that's the right expression???) that were shipping stones, rocks etc. for building.Several assumptions would need to prove true for that search to yield results. There is a lot of research that says St. James never went to Spain. If he was taken to Spain after being executed, there is a lot of disagreement where he might have landed. It is generally agreed that the bones in the cathedral are not those of St. James. It is more likely that they are the remains of Priscillian, a theory that also is unproven. Searchers probably are uncertain whether the boat was stone or wood. Wood will have deteriorated in 2,000 years. Muxia claims the stone boat! It is not real close to Padron. They need Dan Brown on the job; he can weave speculation into fact.
I wish them luck.
or he can weave speculation into a good story!Several assumptions would need to prove true for that search to yield results. There is a lot of research that says St. James never went to Spain. If he was taken to Spain after being executed, there is a lot of disagreement where he might have landed. It is generally agreed that the bones in the cathedral are not those of St. James. It is more likely that they are the remains of Priscillian, a theory that also is unproven. Searchers probably are uncertain whether the boat was stone or wood. Wood will have deteriorated in 2,000 years. Muxia claims the stone boat! It is not real close to Padron. They need Dan Brown on the job; he can weave speculation into fact.
I wish them luck.
There is another variation on that transliteration. A 'stone' boat being a boat in Ballast, ie without cargo. Many prehistoric and early shipwrecks can be identified from the pile of 'alien' rock sitting on the seabed a long way from home. Such a boat, without prospect of trade or profit from a voyage was something only the very high status individual could afford to hire.
I don't know if I entirely and correctly understood your explanation but that much I do know that in any era any transportation mean wasn't "without cargo" in one direction. Some goods went one way and some were transported back to the original destination (or any other).
Let's not get our stone boats mixed up. The one in Muxia is Saint Mary's stone boat, not Saint James'. She arrived in it to assist Saint James with the evangelisation of Spain. That's one version. I have a report from an Austrian pilgrim who visited Santiago and also Muxia in 1654 and he reports that the image or statue of Mary and the child that he saw in the church "arrived across the sea in a stone boat". And that's why the church is call Our lady of the boat.
Fascinating.
I did. Found nothing. But maybe something emerged from 2007.
