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Multi-periodSite Name: Vistnes Rock Carvings Alternative Name: VistnesdalenCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 33.674 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Nordland Type: Carving
Nearest Town: Sandnessjøen Nearest Village: Tjøtta
Latitude: 65.724941N Longitude: 12.491627E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Carving in Tjøtta
The rock carving site of Vistnes is three large pieces of cliffs located inside a small forest, overlooking the sea.
There is one large site and two smaller cliffs, on the largest is the biggest concentration of carvings.
The carvings are pictures of reindeer, elk, small whales, some strange geometrical patters, fishes, two human figures and some strange footsole carvings, and some that looks like leaves. There is also one large strange carving of a square with stripes, what this is picturing is very hard to understand. I shall make it up to the photos to show.
The pictures have been made very close to each other, and some are interlocking or overlapping each other. The lines have been deeply carved into the soft white rock. The site have been dated back to the stone age, about 4000-3000BC.
The site is inside a forest with leaf trees, a path have been made from the country road and leads down to the carvings.
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