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Locality: |
Drottninghall |
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Region: |
Skåne |
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Västra Karup |
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Environment & Surface |
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Open-air
Shelter
Cave
Portable
Megalithic
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Geography: |
Flat, slightly sloping rock. |
Proximity: |
Panels with carvings on both sides of road to V. Karup-Båstad. |
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Geology: |
Coarse, grey kind of rock. |
Surface: |
Flat, rather rough rock surface. Cracks, microflora. |
Dimensions:
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Length 2.00 m.
Width 2.00 m.
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Art |
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
Drottninghall, V. Karup parish, Scania. About 120 figures distributed over 4 panels. The dominating motif is the totally carved out foot print and the cup mark. Some of the cup marks have been carved into elongated hollows. The characteristics of the figures, the technique and the area of distribution are totally divergent from that of the traditional rock carvings. The Scanian figures compose a rock carving tradition of their own.
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Figures: |
total number 120
Foot prints
Elongated hollows
Cup marks
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Chronology: |
Palaeolithic
Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic
Neolithic
Copper Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Roman
Middle Age
Modern
Unknown
The Scanian rock carvings differ from those elsewhere in Scandinavia, the majority belongs to the close of the Stone Age, c. 2000 BC. The weapon figures can be dated to this period, and had their counterparts in the carvings of Central Europe. Some figures might even be older, especially those with similarities in the Megalithic ornamentation of the Middle Neolithic, c. 3200-2500 BC. The carvings of Frännarp and Drottninghall probably belong to Middle and Late Bronze Age, c. 1500-500 BC.
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The rock carvings in the central area of Bjärebygden, NW Scania, differ from the main tradition of Scandinavian rock carvings. Instead they are a part of a larger area of tradition which includes Bjärebygden, Scania; the province of Halland on the Swedish West coast, V part of Småland and up to Västergötland (the Godegård-carvings). |
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Conservation |
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Status: |
Public
Private
Park
Classified site
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Risk: |
The rock carvings are fragile and the major risk are chemical weathering, which makes the hard quartzite losen up and fall out, leaving white dots on the darker rock surface. Also natural weathering (mechanical weathering) during winter/spring, when water freeze in cracks and openings in the rock, creates major damage to rock faces with carvings. The biological weathering is also a danger to the rock carvings, and even to intense cleaning of the rock surface during documentation can make the rock fragile and expose the carvings to wind, water and air-born pollution. |
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Conservation: |
Good
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Intervention: |
Problems concerning conservation and preservation, registration and documentation of rock carvings in Scandinavia are discussed by several departments, i.e. Riksantikvaren in Norway, Riksantikvarieämbetet in Sweden, several universities and research departments. Different methods are tested, for example covering of carved surfaces, measuring of temperature and different contents in water and air and also the composition in the granite. Hollows and cracks in the rock surface can be repaired and carefully filled in. |
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Record n. 800 / 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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