Hundreds of visigothic slate stones (whiteboards) in Western Castilla (Spain).

[r_scherp]

Hails!

This was a very interesting thread and I wish to thank all who participated.

I would like to caution confusing the Visigothic tribe with their empire in Spain and beyond. 

First off I am under the impression that the chief Gothic area was to the north and east and not so much Salamanca and Avila. It would seem that the slate stones may not be Visigothic in the narrow sense, but evidence of a contemporary rural Roman or Romanized population. 

As for ancestry, I think we may justly suppose strong shifts and displacements during the Muslim era in the rural areas, beginning with the immigration of numerous Berber tribes, several of which certainly remained after the great Berber revolutions during the 8th century. And of course there were native semi-pastoral societies other than the Goths during that time that may also have moved around.

Freis jah tulgus!

Randulfs

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "ertydfh110" <ertydfh110 at ...> wrote:
>
> Hello to all,
> 
> I´m from Salamanca in Spain. Although not enough studied, it is one of the places that probably has more visigothic remains in all Spain. 
> 
> I first show you a map where most visigoths established in Spain:
> http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/190/visigodos2.jpg/
> 
> Then I show a map of the province of Salamanca where you can see many visigothic remains (villages, necropolis, coinds, stones) in this province:
> http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/849/visigodossalamanca.jpg/
> 
> That is as an introduction. What got me in this list, is that 3 kms away from the village where all my ancestors come, there are ruins of an old village which is supposed to be celtic and/or visigoth. 
> 
> This is a picture of it:
> 
> The issue about this place is that in this place there have been found several hundred of visigothic slate stones. Most of them have numbers written in them and are supposed to be about accounting (buy or sell of animals for example). But some of them have something non-numeric written in them.
> 
> For example this one:
> http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/534/piedravisigoda.jpg/
> 
> Could you please take a look and see if there is something written in Gothic?. 
> 
> I also send you a picture taken by me in a close museum with some of the stones:
> http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/696/visigothicwhiteboard.jpg/
> 
> Thanks.
>


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