<< Our Photo Pages >> Åmøy Carvings - Carving in Norway in Nordland
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Multi-periodSite Name: Åmøy Carvings Alternative Name: NordhellCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 21.974 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Nordland Type: Carving
Nearest Town: Bodø Nearest Village: Ørnes
Latitude: 66.776878N Longitude: 13.450785E
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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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There are known 12 different panels with 23 figures in total. A path shows the way to the first panel, the rest of the panels are up to the visitor to find. They are spread around on a large area.
The first carving right beside a sign is of a large elk with the neck and head of another elk or reindeer right under the head of the complete figure. There are also a lot of other lines carved on top of the two figures, probably from other figures where parts of them have eroded away and are no longer visible.
About 30 metres away from this panel is the head and neck of another elk carving, and when I was looking around for more panels, I saw another beautiful carving of a bear. It is small and the bear figure have a very long snout.
On a panel above the first panel is a large panel with at least 4 different pictures, one of them of a elk is about 4,5 metres in length, the largest rock carving of a four-legged animal in Europe, it is overlapped by a huge whale figure, about 6,5 metres in length. There is also a lot of other animals or parts of animal carvings on this panel. These carvings were the ones I could find at my visit. Probably some of them are hidden under moss or other vegetation.
The carvings have been "grinded" into the rock and not cut or carved like in many other sites. This type of carvings are also known from sites like Sagelv and Vågan.
They have been dated back to the older stone age, about 6000-7500BC.
Signs and stairs were built to ease visits in the steep terrain.
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