Visigotic pencil

Located on the wall where the main entrance to the Church of Santa Eulalia de El Valle is located, specifically on the right and inside the chamber, but this was not its original location, it had previously been placed inside the Church, but due to the construction of the taboos it was no longer visible, so it was decided to move them.

Access to the site from AS-19, Gijón-Avilés, P.K. 11,500, takes off to the left, then takes the CE-5 road with the direction Santa Eulalia de El Valle, signposted, which leads directly to the church hosting it.

It consists of a pizarroa-stone pencil with an inscription in visigod-type capital letters. This banner, dating from 951, is dated with the inscription of the banner in 989. He undoubtedly belonged to a disappeared church located in the Mount Rouge. The Ermita of San Pedro and San Pablo. Its first task was to draw attention to the presence of Ermita’s relics, which were subsequently taken to the Church of El Valle in 1874. The epigraphed stone measures 43 x 44 cm and its writing box 37 x 39 cm. His writing is all in capital letters, with untitration predominating as a rustic round feature.

The inscription of the pencil translated into Spanish is:

‘For the honour of San Pedro and San Pablo Apóstoles, the relics of San Tirso, Santa Águeda, Santa Pelaya and Marina Virgen are stored on the altar. In this temple that Alfonso, the son of Prince Froilan, built up under the DCCCCLXXXIIII era on the third day (of...)’