Saroi

Some articles on ‘Saroi’, ‘Saroe’ or ‘Sarobe’ – the enclosures or pastures around a shepherds hut,  octagonal stone circles found in the Basque country.

The name of the ‘Sarobia’ animation on the Sorginerratza page of the main Sareoso website may be related to ‘Sarobe’.

  • An extract on ‘Saroi’ from José Miguel de Barandiaran’s Dictionnaire Illustre de Mythologie Basque translated by Byron Zeliotis: Saroii pdf
  • The geometry of pastoral stone octagons: the Basque sarobe., Roslyn M. Frank and Jon D. Patrick. pages 77-91 in Archeaoastronomy in the 1990s, ed. Clive Ruggles.