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Rickeby. Boglösa 138. The locality is the largest one in Uppland, situated on a domed rock with several panels distributed on the sides. There are a total number of c. 453 figures. There are 32 ship figures, 29-185 cm long, both double-lined without crew-strokes and double lined with short crew-strokes. There are 5 human figures, 25-70 cm long, 4 arranged in a row probably female. The largest human figure is cutting over a ship. The foot prints are 18-31 cm long, c. 15 are totally carved out, 1 is placed over a ship, 1 inside a circle. The pairs of foot prints are 17-26 cm and concentrated to the base at the S part of the domed rock. The animal figures are 23-32 cm long, which could be horses. The so called "chair" is 150 cm, and there are a row of 4 human figures crossing it, and also two ship figures. The wheel crosses are 10-15 cm diameter, of which 2 are placed over ship figures. The circle figures are 10-26 cm diameter and one is surrounding a cup mark.
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total number 453
32 ship figures
5 human figures
40 foot prints
24 foot prints in pairs
2 animal figures
1 "chair"
7 wheel crosses
4 circles
2 spiral figures
35 cup marks
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Palaeolithic
Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic
Neolithic
Copper Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Roman
Middle Age
Modern
Unknown
The Uppland carvings are most north-easterly of the concentrations of south Scandinavian rock art tradition. The rock carvings of Uppland are generally dated to the middle and later part of the Bronze Age, c. 1200-500 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. Where a carving has the same object shown, or it is in the same style or has the same decoration as other objects dated to the Bronze Age from graves and hoards, then we can begin to apply some dating to the carvings.
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The province of Uppland is one of the major rock carving areas in the South Scandinavian rock carving tradition, together with Östergötland, Skĺne and Bohuslän. The land is low, with shallow valleys and a few dominant hills or ridges, but it is dotted by small "islands" of rock protruding through the soils, and sometimes by long ridges of rock all sculptured by weathered and by the ancient ice sheets. There are about 700 rock carving sites, and the carvings are found on the above described outcrops of smooth rock along the Bronze Age shoreline (1800 BC at 20 m a s, 1000 BC c. 15 m a s). Some of the images at Boglösa 138 are very unusual in the Scandinavian rock carving tradition. For example the so called Rickeby "chair", interpreted as a chair or ceremonial seat, or a cloak stretched out at the rock. Other interpretations are an altar, or the "horns of consecration". The Rickeby chair has been known for a long time, known already during the 15th century, and probably the earliest known rock carving figure in Uppland. |
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