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<< Text Pages >> Gua Tambun - Rock Art in Malaysia

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Rock ArtSite Name: Gua Tambun
Country: Malaysia
NOTE: This site is 27.849 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Ipoh
Latitude: 4.603056N  Longitude: 101.130000E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
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3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Rock Art in Malaysia

The Gua Tambun cave paintings were ‘discovered’ in 1959 by Lt. RL Rawlings, a British army officer with the 2nd Battalion of the 6th QEO Gurkha Rifles while on a routine training exercise. He realised that these reddish-orange drawings were not the usual graffiti and this was confirmed shortly thereafter by a team from the National Museum who identified the doodles as Neolithic rock art.

They are not really in a cave at all but on a rock shelter, a slightly overhanging ledge, located between 5 and 25 metres above the ground level. They are most likely painted using haematite. Their exact age is not clear with estimates putting them between 2000 to 5000 years old.

source and further information:
wikipedia (german)
malaysia traveller

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