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Locality: |
Serradilla, Sierra Santa Catalina.Southern Slope |
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Extremadura/Cáceres |
Area: |
Monfragüe's Natural Park. |
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Environment & Surface |
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Altitude:
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400 m
Open-air
Shelter
Cave
Portable
Megalithic
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Geography: |
Monfragüe is a massif mountains complex, crossed E-W by Tajo River, where we can find hills, mounts crown with sierras (max. hight....), several water courses and streams commonlly running through narrow valleys. Narrow passes and breaches along the Sierras remain as ancient pastural routes to northern and southern plain valleys. General flora corresponds to Mediterranean wood with bushy trees, mainly cistus, and autoctonal trees like ilex, cork tree. Nowadays we find also exogene spices like olive trees and euchaliptus product of agricultural use of some areas of the Park. Sierra Santa Catalina is the alignment placed on the North-eastern vertice of Monfragüe, land sourrounding is pasture woodland, cultivated land with olive trees and used for forestry. Vegetation includes bushy trees like brooms and cistus and trees like ilex and cork trees mostly. Runing 20 meters W from the eastern flank of Portilla del Boqueron, placed on a llitle terrace open on the rock face, shelter 39, El Enebro, faces SE 160º. |
Proximity: |
I would like to say how far is the river, in which direction and which is the visibility from the site. Besides the closeness of any traditional pastural route. Near the path that surrounds this hill alignment, sights dominate not very far. Other shelters near.... |
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Geology: |
Quartzite |
Surface: |
Though this big shelter has flat, light coloured and smooth areas all over its walls, paintings are located just on the left wall, over a orangy quite irregular surface and quite hided from first sight. Three little groups of red pigment figures facing 230º, 240º and 300º each. |
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Dimensions:
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Length 5.40 m.
Width 8.20 m.
Depth 2.40 m.
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
Redish figures of thick traced line are disposed in three groups. First, 3 bars, few cms to the right disposed in several lines 12 finger spots, sizes from 1.6 to 3 cm long, and 3 bars 3.5 cm and 8 cm, long the largest. Last, 3 more Finger spots 1.7 cm long and 3 bars 2.8- 3.5 cm long, last one incomplete.
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Figures: |
total number 24
Bars, Finger spots
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Chronology: |
Palaeolithic
Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic
Neolithic
Copper Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Roman
Middle Age
Modern
Unknown
Schematic art in the Iberian Peninsule is a style developed from VI to I milenium A.C., Absolute data can´t be given.
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Notes: |
General paintings found do not show pigment remainings. Reference to colour is related to the fosil negative printed on the rock surface when not specified pigment. When pig,ent is found analysis about the composition of red pigments shous mineral procedence from ferric oxidus present on the composition and also present on the mineral enviroment of the site. |
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Conservation |
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Status: |
Public
Private
Park
Classified site
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Risk: |
Unknown reasons have paled the colour of paintings; |
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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 of 209 shelter 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. 149 / 807 |
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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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