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Locality: |
Serradilla (Sierra of Santa Catalina. Sector: Cancho de la Cueva). |
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Region: |
Extremadura, Cáceres |
Area: |
Parque Natural de Monfragüe. |
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Environment & Surface |
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Open-air
Shelter
Cave
Portable
Megalithic
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Geography: |
The Natural Park of Monfragüe is located in the area were two rivers, Tajo and Tietar, come across, and presents low mountains, ranges with breach and narrow valleys, and some planes. It has a Mediteranean forest, with ilex and bushy vegetation -the most frecuent, cistus-. There is also landscape with eucaliptus, olive groves, and pasture land with ilex and corks. The site 019 is a vertical rock wall placed at the bottom of a narrow valley, nex to a stream and facing south-east. The land is wild. |
Proximity: |
Close to a path, and surrounded by brample patch, bushes, brooms and beech. |
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Geology: |
Quartzite rock. |
Surface: |
The paintings are placed in a smooth and pink coloured surface. |
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Dimensions:
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Length 1.85 m.
Width 1.95 m.
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
The indoors-structure shaped figure consists of two horizontal parallel bars joined by means of three vertical bars, parallels too. This figure is pale red, 4,5 cm high and 4,5 cm length.
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Figures: |
total number 1
Indoors-structure shaped.
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Chronology: |
Palaeolithic
Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic
Neolithic
Copper Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Roman
Middle Age
Modern
Unknown
4.000-600 BC.
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Notes: |
General paintings found show us pigment remainings. Just a few appears with good conservated pigment, and analysis about the composition of the red ones have shown mineral procedence from iron oxide, very common on the area.The rock wall was discovered during the prospection made by Colectivo Barbaón in 1997. |
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Conservation |
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Status: |
Public
Private
Park
Classified site
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Risk: |
Despigmentation and damaged by fissure. |
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
Mediocre
Bad
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Intervention: |
Three recording campaigns (1997,98,99) have taken place at Monfragüe, covering most of its sierras and stream breachs, in order to record all schematic art sites. The works, not finished, had given a number over 100 shelters with art, and the record consist in digitalizated tracings, pictures and descriptions that are also being compiled in several unpublished volumes. Monfragüe is a Natural Park where no human intervention is nowadays allowed, neither the presence of people near most of the art sites. The latter means the art is strictly preserved of any anthropical action wether it is damage or conservation works. |
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| Record n. 188 / 807 |
No commercial use is allowed. Specific © is mentioned in the captions or owned by each Author or Institution |
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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).
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