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Name      
Sweden    Skee, Massleberg EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art

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Keywords: Bronze Age, Rock Art, Open Air, Carving, Deer, Ship figure, Hunting scene, Foot soles, Wheel cross, Cup marks.
Institution: University College Visby  http://www.hgo.se/
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Location

Country:

Sweden

Locality:

Massleberg

Region:

Bohuslän

Area:

Skee

 

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Map over the northern part of Bohuslän - Vette hundered, with Massleberg marked out (after Bertilsson 1989:88).
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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:

40 m
Open-air   Shelter   Cave Portable   Megalithic

Geography:
Smooth sloping rock, facing N. 40 m NW of house, close to edge of field. Woodland.

Proximity:

Situated at the edge of a valley, easy to reach.

Geology:

Granite.

Surface:

Smooth, sloping rock. Light in colour.

 

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Art        

Description:

Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
The Massleberg locality is easy to reach, situated at a smooth sloping rock, light in colour. The figures are deeply carved and have been painted in red. The rock surface has been partly damaged by fire. There are There are a few scenes on the carving, the hunting scene consists of deer with elaborate antlers, surrounded by c. 10 dogs and an armless hunter, and possibly a net. There are a few recently found images, for example the big warrior with sword and the right arm raised and a beak-shaped nose. A number of elaborate ship figures, with lur-players and a red-deer with huge sun- or flower shaped antlers. In the lower part of the panel, there are one double-lined ship with 40 crew-strokes carried by a little male figure. Below two beautiful shop figures with many crew-strokes, one carved above the other. Above those ship figures, two fighting men with spears, with a female figure with a pony-tail between them.

Figures:
total number 160
22 ship figures 11 human figures 3 foot soles 22 animals 2 circles 1 wheel-cross 90 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 lurs can be dated to the Late Bronze Age, and are often found in pairs.

Notes:

The Massleberg carving is unusually well-preserved, it is deeply carved and painted in red contrasting to the light colour of the rock. It is typically located on a gently rounded, sloping granite rock face near arable land, on the edge of a valley. This engraving contains a multitude of ships, humans, animals and cup-marks. There are also several superimposed carvings, showing that figures were added successively (bengtsson 1989:247).
 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
Sweden EuroPreArt general bibliography, by University College VisbyGeneral (country)
Specific Skee, Massleberg bibliography, by University College VisbySpecific (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:

The rock carvings are subjected to air pollution, causing erosion. The rock surface has been damaged by fire.

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. The carved figures has been painted in red.

 

By          

Compiler:

Li Winter

Institution:

University College Visby  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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