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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
The most abundant kind of figures that appear on this rock are the circles and the ovals. The circles are from 3 cm to 13 cm diameter, and the ovals are from 6 cm to 18.5 cm long. These pecked figures can appear isolated (in some cases joined an appendix from 4.5 c, to 20 cm long), or joined another ones forming groups more or less numerous (from 2 to 4 units)), or placed in the inner part of some figures. These motives are from 0.5 cm to 2 cm thick, however, one of them is pecked in its inner part. Nevertheless, the most interesting motives we find here are the pecked zoomorphic figures, all of them schematic. The first one have a trunk consists of a circle 11.5 cm diameter. From this circle arise seven appendixes: the front legs (two traces 10 cm long), the back ones (two very desproportionate traces 16 cm and 18 cm long respectively), the neck (very desproportionate too), the tail and the male sex. In the head of this zoomorph we can distinguish the muzzle and two horns. This figure is 41.2 cm long and 19 cm wide. Near to this motif, appear a comb-shaped figure consists of an horizontal trace 14.5 cm long, three vertical lines 5.5 cm long, and a starting vertical trace 1.5 cm long. On these two figures (the zoomorph and the comb-shaped figure) we can see a regular reticle made with thread-like lines consists of seven vertical lines from 12.5 cm to 29 cm long crossed by eleven horizontal lines from 24.5 cm to 27 cm lont. Between the neck and the front legs of the zoomorph we can see another reticle. In this case consists of two parallel fine lines 7 cm long with 8 crossed diagonal lines forming rhombuses. This reticle is 1.2 cm wide. The next three zoomorphs have a similar characteristics. The trunk consists of a big oval, from 15.5 cm to 22 cm long. From this oval arise some appendixes: legs, neck, tail, and, in one of the three figures, the male sex is indicated. We can distinguish in these zoomorphs the head, the muzzle and two horns. We can also see a pecked circle in the inner part of the trunk. All the figures have outstretched their legs, in running position. However, the front legs of one of these zoomorphs go on to back forming two concentric circles 12 cm and 19.5 cm diameter. Some figures have attached one or more circles in its horns or legs. The last zoomorph that we can see here is made from different way to the other ones. The trunk is an oval 9 cm long. From its right part arise two straight appendixes 3 cm and 4.5 cm long (one back leg and one front leg). Near to its left part appear two more straight lines 6.5 cm and 5 cm long respectively. From the upper part of the trunk we find the head and possibily two horns consists of some irregular traces. This figure is 16.7 cm long and 11.2 cm wide. Apart from the reticles, on this rock we can see another thread-like lines from 0.3 cm to 10 cm long. Sometimes these lines appear forming groups more or less complex, but they can appear isolated too. In some cases, these fine lines have superimposed to the peckeds. But there are also very important lines infraposed, defining a naturalistic female deer with paralells in the Magdaleniense rock art. Finally, appear here some moder engraved letters (without patina). We can read: "AA", "MIA", and "A7A".
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Figures: |
total number 32
5 zoomorphs, 1 comb-shaped figure, 16 circles, 5 ovals, 2 reticles, indeterminates, thread-like lines, naturalistic female deer.
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Chronology: |
Palaeolithic
Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic
Neolithic
Copper Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Roman
Middle Age
Modern
Unknown
Magdaleniense -17.000 BP- the naturalistic deer made with filiform lines, and Neolithic -Copper Age - 8.000 to 4000 BP -the schemathic pecked figures.
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Notes: |
EUROPREART DB Cheles records are just a little sample in short of the hole documentation of the site. All the documentation is registered in our own DB, and you can ask for more information at the e.mail adress barbaon@terra.com. |
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