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Sweden    Tegneby, Stenbacken 3:2 Tegneby EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art

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Keywords: Bronze Age, Carving, Rock art, Cup marks, Human figures, Ship figures, Dogs, Animals, Tree figure, Bird, Foot print.
Institution: Gotland University College, Visby, Sweden.  http://www.hgo.se/
Record
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Gotland University - Sweden
 
Location
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Country:

Sweden

Locality:

Stenbacken raä 66

Region:

Bohuslän

Area:

Tegneby

 

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The view towards Bo from Tanum no. 67, with a glimpse of the Stenbacken site just below the rock panel in the foreground (Högberg 1995).
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Copyright. No commercial use of EuroPreArt content is allowed. Specific © for pictures and drawings is mentioned in the captions or owned by each Author or Institution.
Disclaim. The EuroPreArt project fully endorses the most recent documentation policies. It must be outlined the absolute forbidding of any disruptive method and the necessity of a total respect for archaeological sites. It is also to be noticed that no substances shall be applied to rock art for recording purposes. Some pictures of the EuroPreArt records are related to past recording techniques and may not fully match these policies. They are an historical documentation. Please refer to local archaeological official authorities for any recording purpose. Please take a look also over EuroPreArt guidelines.
 
Environment & Surface

Open-air   Shelter   Cave Portable   Megalithic

Geography:
Facing SE, slightly sloping 10º, 2 m SSE of track, 9 m WNW of boundary.

Proximity:

Only 24 m E20ºN of Tanum no. 65.

Geology:

Surface:

Slightly sloping, smooth rock, 7.1 x 4.6 m (NE-SWº

Dimensions:
Length 7.10 m.  Width 4.60 m.

 

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Art        

Description:

Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
Tanum no. 66 Stenbacken. The rock carving is 7.1 x 4.6 m (NE-SW). There is a total number of 1075 figures, of which 996 are cup marks, 1.5-6.0 cm ø, forming a variation of geometric patterns and combinations. The carving consists of 6 panels and most of the figures are concentrated to the major panel in the SE. In the central part of the major panel over 400 cup marks are arranged in lines forming an open rectangle, open in one end and on the inside a ship figure and one cup mark is found. Other cup marks form circles with cup marks inside. There are 36 animals 11-40 cm long, of which some could be dogs and horses. There is one fish and one bird 32 cm long and 18 cm width. There are 31 ship figures 15-170 cm long, both double- and single-lined, some with crew strokes and horse shaped endings. There are 6 human figures 16-20 cm long, of which one is phallic, one also phallic and attached to the top of a tree 45 cm long.

Figures:
total number 1075
31 ship figures 6 human figures 36 animal figures 1 foot print with toes 2 rings 1 bird 1 tree 1 wheel figure 996 cup marks

Chronology:

Palaeolithic   Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic   Neolithic   Copper Age   Bronze Age   Iron Age   Roman   Middle Age   Modern   Unknown
The rock carvings of Southern Scandinavia are generally dated to the middle and later part of the Bronze Age, c. 1500-500 BC. Occasionally, more absolute dating of single panels or figures can be made, based on typological or stylistic features of the image, and by comparisons with identifiable objects.

Notes:

Tanum no. 66 Stenbacken is known by the name "The 1000-cup mark rock" and was excavated by the Central Board of National Antiquities in 1971. Previously, only a few cup marks and one ship figure were known on this site (Högberg 1995:36).
 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
Sweden EuroPreArt general bibliography, by Gotland University College, Visby, Sweden.General (country)
Specific Tegneby, Stenbacken 3:2 Tegneby bibliography, by Gotland University College, Visby, Sweden.Specific (site)
Rock Art Studies: A Bibliographic worldwide Database (external link). Compiled by Leigh Marymor. Copyright (C) 2001-2002 by the Library, University of California, Berkeley Bibliographic
Rock Art
Database

 

 
Conservation        

Status:

Public   Private   Park   Classified site

Risk:

The major risk for rock carvings are chemical weathering, which makes the hard quartzite losen up and fall out, leaving white dots on the darker rock surface. Also natural weathering (mechanical weathering) during winter/spring, when water freeze in cracks and openings in the rock, creates major damage to rock faces with carvings. The biological weathering is also a danger to the rock carvings, and even to intense cleaning of the rock surface during documentation can make the rock fragile and expose the carvings to wind, water and air-born pollution. The Stenbacken site is severely damaged by fire.

Conservation:

Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

Intervention:

The environmental pollution project in Sweden was started in 1989 with the express purpose of examining the influence of the pollution on relics of culture including rock carvings. This was done to get a survey of the full extent of the damage. The project is run by the Riksantikvarieämbetet (Raä), Central Board of National Antiquities. On the basis of the results of the examination the Raä will estimate the possibilities of acute and long term arrangements of preservation.

 

By          

Compiler:

Li Winter 2001.

Institution:

Gotland University College, Visby, Sweden.  http://www.hgo.se/
 
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EuroPreArt, European Prehistoric Art, is a web-based archaeological project funded by the European Union which aims to establish a lasting data-base of European prehistoric art documentation, to launch the base of an European institutional network and to contribute to the awareness of the diversity and richness of European Prehistoric Art.
It is proposed by: Instituto Politécnico de Tomar (IPT, Portugal), CUEBC - European University Centre for Cultural Heritage (Italy - Europe), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España), Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón (España), Université de Liège (Belgique), Gotland University College (Sverige), University College Dublin (Eire), Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo (Italia), Study Centre and Museum of Prehistoric Art of Pinerolo (Italia), The European Centre for Prehistoric Research in the Alto Ribatejo (Portugal), ArqueoJovem - a youth NGO (Portugal).
Instituto Politécnico de Tomar - Portugal CUEBC - European University Centre for Cultural Heritage, Ravello - Italy CSIC - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid - Spain Orme dell'Uomo - Footsteps of Man, Valcamonica - Italy Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón, Extremadura -Spain Liège University - Belgium Gotland University - Sweden University College Dublin - Ireland CeSMAP - Centro Studi e Museo d'Arte Preistorica. Pinerolo, Italy Arqueo Jovem

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