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<< Our Photo Pages >> Hell Haellristning - Carving in Norway in Nord-Trøndelag

Submitted by kenntha88 on Thursday, 03 February 2011  Page Views: 9749

Multi-periodSite Name: Hell Haellristning Alternative Name: Hällristning
Country: Norway
NOTE: This site is 0.358 km away from the location you searched for.

Fylke: Nord-Trøndelag Type: Carving
Nearest Town: Trondheim  Nearest Village: Stjordal
Latitude: 63.444040N  Longitude: 10.905990E
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Hell Haellristning submitted by kenntha88 : View of the vertical cliff and the carvings from a little distance. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Rock carving (Hällristning) in Tröndelag, Norway. The scene contains rock carvings from the later stone age, about 5000 to 6000 years old. It is the so-called "hunting" category of rock carvings from Scandinavia, showing animals in a naturalistic style, almost life-sized.

It consists of two reindeer in almost full-size, several smaller animals, some complete, some only fragments remains, and also some strange zig-zag shaped lines.

The carvings are not been hacked or grinded into the rock, but they seem to have been cut into the rock by a sharp instrument, almost like a cut in wood. They are very deep and the cut is almost perfect V-shaped, into a almost vertical cliff side.

The site has been made easy to access, a parking spot has been made, and signposts have been put up to show the path that leads to the carvings. It is well-worth a visit.

This site with the very funny name in English is a site with stone age rock carvings. The name means something like tilting terrain in Norwegian.

Note: Norwegian petroglyphs found beneath burial mounds close by, details in comment
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Hell Haellristning
Hell Haellristning submitted by kenntha88 : Another unknown figure! Any ideas to what this may be? (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Hell Haellristning
Hell Haellristning submitted by kenntha88 : A strange picture of sigg-sagging lines (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hell Haellristning
Hell Haellristning submitted by kenntha88 : One of the smaller raindeer figures (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Hell Haellristning submitted by kenntha88 : Close-up on the front part of the largest raindeer. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hell Haellristning
Hell Haellristning submitted by kenntha88 : Close up from one side

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Re: Norwegian petroglyphs found beneath burial mounds by TimPrevett on Wednesday, 01 October 2014
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Will hopefully be visiting here before long; will see what I can find from the visit.
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Norwegian petroglyphs found beneath burial mounds by Andy B on Thursday, 03 February 2011
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It looked to be a routine excavation of what was thought to be a burial mound. But beneath the mound, archaeologists from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology’s Museum of Natural History and Archaeology found something more: unusual Bronze Age petroglyphs. 

"We believe these are very special in a Norwegian context," says museum researcher and project manager Anne Haug.

The excavation in Stjordal, just north of Trondheim, was necessitated by the expansion of a gravel pit. Given that project archaeologists didn’t anticipate that the dig would be very complicated, the museum researchers dedicated just three weeks to the effort.

Petroglyphs under a cremation site

Then came the surprises. First, it turned out that mound builders had used an existing hill as a starting point - which of course saved them time and effort. The hill itself made the burial mound even larger and more monumental than it might have otherwise been.

But researchers suspected there might be another reason for the choice of the hilltop when they uncovered the remains of two cremations, or rather a fire layer that also contained bits of bone. Underneath they found many petroglyphs, including eight drawings showing the soles of feet, with cross hatching. There were also five shallow depressions, Haug says.

Two boat drawings and several other drawings of feet soles with toes were also found just south of the burial mound.

LInk between burial mound and drawings unclear

“This is a very special discovery, and we are not aware of other similar findings from Trøndelag County,” she says. “The tomb might have been deliberately constructed over the petroglyphs, probably as part of funeral ritual. Based on the type of characters and especially the drawings of the foot soles, we have dated the artwork to the Bronze Age, about 1800 - 500 BC.”


“Why there are foot sole drawings beneath the tomb is a puzzle. But if we interpret the find in terms of a fertility cult, it may be that the soles represent God and life-giving power. That means that you can have both life and death represented in one place,” she says.


Unique in a Norwegian context 


Haug says that there was a similar discovery in Østlandet, an area called Jong in Bærum, where petroglyphs illustrating foot soles were found under a tomb that dates back to the Bronze Age. In a Nordic context, this phenomenon is more common, and there are several examples where burials were combined with rock art, particularly petroglyphs of foot soles from Bohuslän, a World Heritage site in Sweden. 


It’s not yet clear if the grave was put in place the same time as the petroglyphs, Haug says. The dig began in September, 2010 and extended through the end of October, but the analysis is ongoing.

The scientists have found about 900 grams of burned bone, probably from one or more individuals; they hope to be able to carry out C-14 dating of the material and conduct more analyses so they can determine more about the gender and the age of the individuals in the grave.

“Currently, we have found several human teeth, as well as what may be remains of human ribs. We also found an animal tooth that suggests that one or more animals may have been laid in the tomb along with whoever is buried there,” she says. There were very few objects found in the tomb, but a flat corroded metal object was found in the burnt layer. It's hard to say what this was, but the object will be X-rayed for analysis. 


Remains of a larger burial ground?

It is unclear whether the original burial site contained two grave mounds, or whether there was just one large burial area. 


A burial ground in the area was first described in 1818 by Lorentz D. Klüwer, and archaeologist Karl Rygh also described the site in 1879. It is likely that the graves that have been excavated in the

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    Re: Norwegian petroglyphs found beneath burial mounds by Anonymous on Wednesday, 01 October 2014
    Will hopefully be visiting here before long; will see what I can find out!
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    Re: Norwegian petroglyphs found beneath burial mounds by Anonymous on Wednesday, 01 October 2014
    Great. As this site page is for "Hell", a famous stone age rock art site, I suggest to add this info to one of the Stjördal bronze age rock art sites (we only have very few of them). For example this one, which is one of the main locations: http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=36137


    Cheers, Martin (logged off)
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      Re: Norwegian petroglyphs found beneath burial mounds by TimPrevett on Sunday, 12 October 2014
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      Cheers Martin - give me four months max! Snowfall may prevent some being seen during my visit. Tim.
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