Granite stone that was used in mediaeval times to mark boundaries.
It is a large block of granite in the shape of a frame. It has a height of 1.20 m and a triangular section that tapers in slightly in the upper part. The marker is located on the border between the municipalities of Padrón and Teo, on the edge of a traditional road that branches of from AC-6502 road and runs down towards the Tarrío Stream.
It forms part of a set of three mediaeval marker stones (two in Lampai and a third in the parish of Pedrouso, Padrón). In 1156, the Emperor Alfonso VII, and a large part of the aristocracy and the Church of the Crown of Castile, made a donation of an enormous tract of land to an unknown commoner named Sancho Eanes. Research indicates that these lands were granted in gratitude to Sancho’s work for Alfonso VII during the “Reconquest”.
The full text of the inscription could be transcribed as follows: “Era MCXCIV et quotum I kalendas septemberis cum auctoritatem imperatoris et omnibus intervinientibus patronim statuit” that is: “In the year 1156 on the first day of September with the authority of the Emperor and all those present, I lay this stone.”
