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Locality: |
Sorthat strand, Nyker |
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Region: |
Bornholm |
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Vester |
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Environment & Surface |
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Open-air
Shelter
Cave
Portable
Megalithic
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Geography: |
Steep rock, S of road to Sorthand strand. Facing the sea. |
Proximity: |
Facing the sea. |
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Geology: |
Sandstone. |
Surface: |
Steep, rough surface. Porous, erosion. |
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Dimensions:
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Length 4.00 m.
Width 1.50 m.
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Art |
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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.
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Figures: |
Wheel cross
Ship figure
Hand design
Circle design
Hook-like figures
Cup marks
Elongated hollows
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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.
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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. |
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Conservation |
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Status: |
Public
Private
Park
Classified site
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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. |
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
Mediocre
Bad
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Intervention: |
The carvings at Sorthand strand have been covered by sand and hay directly after the documentation was completed. |
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| Record n. 5 / 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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