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Sweden    Tanum, Lövåsen Kyrkoryk EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art

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Keywords: Bronze Age, Carving, Open Air, Rock Art, Ship figures, Warriors, Animals, Adoration, Phallic, Birds, Bird-beak, Weapons.
Institution: Gotland University College, Visby, Sweden.  http://www.hgo.se/
Record
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Gotland University - Sweden
 
Location
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Country:

Sweden

Locality:

Tanum No 321

Region:

Bohuslän

Area:

Tanum

 

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Detailed map over the Tanum area, with Lövåsen-Kyrkoryk marked (map Li Winter).
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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:
Facing S, smooth sloping rock, just W of track. Carvings found along the steep hillside.

Proximity:

Close to track.

Geology:

Surface:

Smooth sloping rock, in an N-S direction. Slippery surface.

Dimensions:
Length 4.50 m.  Width 3.00 m.

 

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Art        

Description:

Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
The locality of Lövåsen-Kyrkoryk consists of a number of panels along a steep hillside. There are 19 ship figures, 10-98 cm long. 9 are single-lined of which six with crew-strokes and 6 completely carved out of which two with human-like crew-strokes in the shape of so called "head-nobs". There are 7 human figures, 20-87 cm long, 2 pair of legs , one in adoration position and 2 phallic with horns of which one with head as a bird-beak, sword and axe and one with a sword. There are 6 animal figures 10-22 cm long, 4 birds and 1 with two legs and 1 with four legs. There are 4 obscure figures 10-30 cm long, and 4 strokes 10-26 cm long. Finally there are 16 cup marks, 2-5 cm ø, one in a ship. Scenes on the carving: One pair of legs is attached to an underneath a ship where the four birds are. One of the birds is attached at the end of the prow in one of the ship figures, one is possibly standing on a rack and one is attached to a pair of legs. One human figure is in a adoration position and has a rectangular body and is standing in a ship.

Figures:
total number 56
19 ship figures 7 human figures 6 animals 4 obscure figures 4 strokes 16 cup marks

Chronology:

Palaeolithic   Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic   Neolithic   Copper Age   Bronze Age   Iron Age   Roman   Middle Age   Modern   Unknown
The rock carvings of Southern Scandinavia are generally dated to the middle and later part of the Bronze Age, c. 1500-500 BC. Occasionally, more absolute dating of single panels or figures can be made, based on typological or stylistic features of the image, and by comparisons with identifiable objects. The horned human figures can be compared to finds of helmets of Hallstatt-type, dated to the Late Bronze Age .

Notes:

The locality of Lövåsen-Kyrkoryk, Tanum no. 321 consists of a number of panels. This one is the most famous one, because of the unusual human figure, the "Wizard of Lövåsen", with the horned helmet and strange bird-beak mask. The image has usually been interpreted as showing cultic rites.
 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
Sweden EuroPreArt general bibliography, by Gotland University College, Visby, Sweden.General (country)
Specific Tanum, Lövåsen Kyrkoryk 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:

The rock carvings are subjected to air pollution, causing erosion.

Conservation:

Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

Intervention:

The Central Board of National Antiquities has launched a programme for compiling an inventory of damage, as a base for future repairs.

 

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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