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Name      
Denmark    Vester, Sorthat strand EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art
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Keywords: Bronze Age, Rock art, Engraving, Cup marks, Wheel cross, Open air, Elongated hollows, Horse, Beach.
Institution: Gotland University College, Visby, Sweden.  http://www.hgo.se/
Record
proposed
by
 Gotland University - Sweden
 
Location
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Country:

 Denmark

Locality:

 Sorthat strand, Nyker

Region:

 Bornholm

Area:

 Vester

 

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Rock carvings at Sorthand strand (tracing, Bornholms museer).
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:
Steep rock, S of road to Sorthand strand. Facing the sea.

Proximity:

 Facing the sea.

Geology:
Sandstone.

Surface:
Steep, rough surface. Porous, erosion.

Dimensions:
Length 4.00 m.  Width 1.50 m.

 

 
Art        

Description:

 Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
Sorthat strand (beach). The carving are distributed out over a very porous sandstone rock, c. 4 x 1.5 m. At the S part of the rock there are a number of carvings. One wheel cross with a superimposed ship figure, a vague wheel cross, a possible hand design, a circle, hook-like figures, and cup marks. The N part consists of distinct elongated hollows and cup marks.

Figures:
Wheel cross Ship figure Hand design Circle design Hook-like figures Cup marks Elongated hollows

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. In a few cases 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. The wheel in Danish petroglyphs dates from the Late Neolithic and the earliest Bronze Age, and has a continuing existence through the Iron Age on metal objects and pottery. Analogies can be found between devices on metal objects of the Early Bronze Age and petroglyphic wheels, for example between a stone from Skallerup with a cup-mark between the spokes and the pommel of an early bronze dagger.

Notes:
The carvings at Sorthat strand have been carried out in very porous sandstone, and there is a great danger for erosion if the carving were to be left out in the open. The carvings at Sorthand strand have been covered by sand and hay directly after the documentation was completed, and the material are available at Bornholms museer, Rönne, Bornholm.
 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
Denmark EuroPreArt general bibliography, by Gotland University College, Visby, Sweden.General (country)
Specific Vester, Sorthat strand 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:
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, so called 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 carvings at Sorthat strand have been carried out in very porous sandstone, and there is a great danger for erosion if the carving were to be left out in the open.

Conservation:

 Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

Intervention:
The carvings at Sorthand strand have been covered by sand and hay directly after the documentation was completed.

 
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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