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Locality: |
Serradilla, Sierra of Santa Catalina, "Cancho de la Cueva" sector. |
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Region: |
Extremadura, Cáceres |
Area: |
Monfragüe. |
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Environment & Surface |
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Altitude:
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555 m
Open-air
Shelter
Cave
Portable
Megalithic
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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. Arround this area hunting and shepherdig are practicated. The site 005 is placed in the rock outcrop in the top of the mountain, facing South. It´s located out of the Park, but very close to its limits. |
Proximity: |
It´s near the shelters monfr002 " La Estrecha" and monfr003 " El Cajón".This site is about 100 m to the East, from a forest road, and some meters below the path which follows the top of the Sierra, surrounded by brooms and bushes, especially rockroses, and very near to the rock you can see a small pine forest. |
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Geology: |
Quarzite rock. |
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It´s very irregular (convex, concave, rough, cracks) with patina and yelow and green lichen. The paintigs are on a small flat cracked of the wall. |
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Dimensions:
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Length 0.95 m.
Width 1.00 m.
Depth 0.85 m.
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
The drawings are distributed along the shelter walls and the ceiling. The most represented motif is the bar, thick or thin lines usually drawn in a vertical position, and may vary in height between 28 cm and 1 cm. On the left wall of the shelter we can observe thin vertical lines, small in size and dark red in colour, superimposed on the other horizontal lines of greater dimensions with a lighter color. We can also observe some red fingerings, thread-like lines in a vertical or inclined position, which were drawn with some sort of instrument such as a feather or small twig. However, there also seems to appear more complex figures like a sun-shaped figure on the shelter´s ceiling with a circunference of 5 to 6 cm in diameter, around which there are 24 lines. Inside we can also see two more small lines. The figure is red and made up of fine lines. Another figure to mention is an indoors-structure shape, which has a criss-cross pattern which begins to split from the intersection of 2 vertical lines with another 4 horizontal lines. This is a darck red colour and is made up of fine lines measuring less than 2 mm wide and 6 cm long.
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Figures: |
total number 120
Sun-shaped, bar, fingering, indoors-structure, therad-like lines
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Chronology: |
Palaeolithic
Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic
Neolithic
Copper Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Roman
Middle Age
Modern
Unknown
4000-600.
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Notes: |
Discovered during the prospection made by Colectivo Barbaón in 1998. The site is known as "Ciempiés".General paintings found show us pigment remainings. Just a few appears with good conservated pigment, and analysis about the composition of the red ones have shown mineral procedence from iron oxide, very common on the area. |
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Conservation |
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Status: |
Public
Private
Park
Classified site
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Risk: |
Its conservation status is good. |
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
Mediocre
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Intervention: |
Three recording campaigns (1997,98,99) have taken place at Monfragüe, covering most of its sierras and stream breachs, in order to record all schematic art sites. The works, not finished, had given a number over 100 shelters with art, and the record consist in digitalizated tracings, pictures and descriptions that are also being compiled in several unpublished volumes. Monfragüe is a Natural Park where no human intervention is nowadays allowed, neither the presence of people near most of the art sites. The latter means the art is strictly preserved of any anthropical action wether it is damage or conservation works. |
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| Record n. 156 / 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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