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Author: Felix Mugurutza
In Spanish, the name zoqueta stands for as a piece of wood, similar to a glove, used by the person who is reaping the harvest to protect the little finger, ring finger and middle finger of the left hand from the cuts of the sickle. Documented in Basque as esku-kapela, it is not a known word, but rather unusual, since that device has been mostly used on the Mediterranean side of Euskal Herria, where cereal was abundant, but our language was lost long before. Along the northern slope, on the contrary, it is a completely unknown object.
Lean-to shed in the neighbourhood of Aldeacueva. Carranza (Bizkaia), 2009. Miguel Sabino Díaz.
An auxiliary construction, usually attached to the house though sometimes detached from it, known as rocha used to be quite common, as senior locals in the Valley of Carranza (Bizkaia) recall.
The earliest record of that type of building appears in writing, in a letter sent by Diego de Ahedo, native of Carranza and Archbishop of Palermo, from Sicily to his nephew Pedro Ochoa de Ahedo, resident in the Valley. The letter is dated 15 January 1588, and in it mention is made of an annex where threshed grain was store: “it is now preferable and most convenient to store it in the outhouse where cider used to be made and kept”. (more…)
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