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Name      
Denmark    Nørre, Storløkkebakke EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art

Denmark Image map
Keywords: Bronze Age, Rock Art, Carving, Open air, Ship figures, Wheel-crosses, Human figure.
Institution: Gotland University College, Visby, Sweden.  http://www.hgo.se/
Record
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by
Gotland University - Sweden
 
Location
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Country:

Denmark

Locality:

Allinge Byjord, Olsker

Region:

Bornholm

Area:

Nørre

 

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Map over Denmark and Bornholm, Storløkkebakke marked out (map by Li Winter 2001).
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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

Altitude:

67 m
Open-air   Shelter   Cave Portable   Megalithic

Geography:
Rock at the top of a hill (Storløkkebakken) in the middle of farmland. Slope facing NE. Farmland. Small trees and bushes at the top of the hill.

Proximity:

Overlooking the sea and the surrounding plains of N Bornholm. At clear weather the province of Scania in Sweden is visible in the distant. C. I km to other major rock carving localities on NE Bornholm. SE of Allinge village.

Geology:

Surface:

Flat, smooth surface.

 

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Art        

Description:

Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
Storløkkebakke, Allinge, Bornholm. The site is situated on a hill top overlooking the sea and the surrounding plains of N Bornholm. There are a couple of panels and the rock is flat and smooth. On one panel there are 5 figures and a number of cup marks. One ship figure situated in the middle, are double-lined with extended, turned up- and inwards stem and stern. The keel is extended in one end and turned downwards in the other, perhaps a steering-oar. The ship has 11 crew-strokes, but is very weathered so some might have disappeared. In front of this ship there is another one, fragmentary with 4 crew-strokes and with no visible keel-line. Below these two ships are another two, 1 larger and one small, sailing to the E. The larger ship has extended prow, turned inwards, the keel-line extended and turned upwards in the stem, and a short line in the stern, turned downwards. There are 5 crew-lines in the fore of the ship. The smaller ship is of the same type, but strongly weathered. On a panel NW of the main panel at Storløkkebakke, there is another panel, very weathered but with 2 parallel lines which could be the last traces of a double-lined ship figure.

Figures:
total number 5
4 ship figures 1 foot print Cup marks

Chronology:

Palaeolithic   Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic   Neolithic   Copper Age   Bronze Age   Iron Age   Roman   Middle Age   Modern   Unknown
The relative dating of the rock carvings of Bornholm are that they belong to the Bronze Age, c. 1800-500 BC. Finds dated to the Bronze Age have been made very close to the rock carving locality and also comparative analyses of style in the ship figures suggests a Bronze Age dating. The carvings are also found along the right level above the sea during this period.

Notes:

Two of the Storløkkebakke-ships on the main panel are shallow and weathered, and can only be seen in grazing light, by the sun or by torch (Glob 1969:30f).
 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
Denmark EuroPreArt general bibliography, by Gotland University College, Visby, Sweden.General (country)
Specific Nørre, Storløkkebakke 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

 

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Conservation        

Status:

Public   Private   Park   Classified site

Risk:

Damage to the environment including weathering of the rock surface have been in the full blaze of publicity for a long time. The condition of the rock carvings of Bornholm are as on many other places are drastically growing worse. The cause is to be found in the changes of environment created by man, environmental pollution. Essential accelerating elements of weathering are acid rain, humic acid created in scientifically managed forests, and changes of the flora, lichen and moss. The Storløkkebakke carvings are subject to weathering.

Conservation:

Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

Intervention:

Occasionally the engraved surface are partially covered by ground and grass, which are removed when necessary.

 

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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