
Wood from
the Jurassic
Jet is wood from Jurassic trees turned into a light black stone, polished until it gleams: some one hundred and fifty million years in the making. It came from Asturias. The jet carvers of Santiago shaped it for pilgrims, and one of the cathedral’s doors still bears their name. It gleams like the slate of Majaelrayo, among the oaks of the Sierra de Ayllón, when it rains
















