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Name      
España    Parque Natural de Monfragüe, Site XXV, "Megabarras" EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art
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Keywords: Bars, schematic paintings, iron oxide, shelter, steep rock.
Institution: Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón  
Record
proposed
by
 Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón, Extremadura -Spain
 
Location
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Country:

 España

Locality:

 Serradilla,Sierra of Santa Catalina, "Cancho de la Cueva" sector.

Region:

 Extremadura , Cáceres.

Area:

 Parque Natural de Monfragüe

 

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General view of the site Megabarras nº 25. Shelter and panel in the outside wall on the left
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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:
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.

Proximity:

 025 is located in the southern face of the "Santa Catalina sierra", near 024, and also 225 m over the Garganta stream, wich flows following the base of the slope.

Geology:
Quartzite

Surface:
The paintings are located at the west end of the shelter, m. high from the floor, in a vertical wall withy-greyish and with some fissures.

Dimensions:
Length 1.80 m.  Depth 1.90 m.

 

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Art        

Description:

 Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
In this site we have just 2 parallel bars painted in a vertical position with a dark red pigment made with iron oxide. They are 1 cm thick and 10-11,5 cm long.

Figures:
total number 2
2 bars.

Chronology:

 Palaeolithic   Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic   Neolithic   Copper Age   Bronze Age   Iron Age   Roman   Middle Age   Modern   Unknown
VI-I milenium aC. is the general schematic-paintings cronology in Spain. (We can´t give more accurate cronology because of the few references we can obtain in this case).

Notes:
 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
España EuroPreArt general bibliography, by Asociación Cultural Colectivo BarbaónGeneral (country)
Specific Parque Natural de Monfragüe, Site XXV, 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:
There are some fissures around the paintings.

Conservation:

 Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

Intervention:

 
By          

Compiler:

 Milagros Fernández Algaba

Institution:

 Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón  
 
         Record n. 175 / 807
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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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