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Locality: |
Serradilla (Sierra of Santa Catalina. Sector: Cancho de la Cueva) |
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Region: |
Extremadura, Cáceres |
Area: |
Parque Natural de Monfragüe. |
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Environment & Surface |
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Altitude:
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520 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. The rock shelter 013, placed in the middle slope of a rock outcrop, faces south. It´s located out of the Park, but very close to its limits. |
Proximity: |
Close to a stream The shelter is sorrounded by brooms and bushes. |
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Geology: |
Quartzite rock. |
Surface: |
Smooth surface. Orange-coloured, and blackened zones by smoke, and acumulation of iron ore. |
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Dimensions:
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Length 1.35 m.
Width 3.80 m.
Depth 2.75 m.
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
We point out a comb-shaped figure. The horizontal line is 2,2 cm long and the vertical lines are from 1,7 cm to 2,7 cm long. All the lines are 0,4 cm wide. Other kind of figures that we can see there, are some bars, small spots, fingerings, curvilinear lines, an upside down walking stick-shaped and other indeterminate figures.
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Figures: |
total number 37
Comb-shaped, bar, fingering, curvilinear, spot, blot, angle, upside down walking stick-shaped, infeterminate.
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Chronology: |
Palaeolithic
Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic
Neolithic
Copper Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Roman
Middle Age
Modern
Unknown
4000-600 BP
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Notes: |
The rock shelter was discovered during the prospection made by Colectivo Barbaón in 1999.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: |
Despigmentation, rock washed off by water and damaged by fissures. |
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
Mediocre
Bad
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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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By |
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| Record n. 181 / 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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