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Rock ArtSite Name: Hamarhaug Alternative Name: HusabergetCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 4.563 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Hordaland Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Stord
Latitude: 60.004886N Longitude: 5.740035E
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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Rock Art in Hordaland
This rock art site is located on a vertical rock cliff close to the ground where the cliff meets a flat grassy field just a few metres from the local road. The problem with this site is that there is constantly water running down the cliff. This puts a lot of erosion on the carvings and some of the rock art has been destroyed over the years. Above the cliff are overhanging vegetation and trees. The water has also left some vertical lines that could be confused with pictures.
The rock art site once consisted of 36 figures and two cup markings. 33 of the figures were pictures of boats or remains of boats and three circles. When I visited the site I could find four carvings of ships. One a very beautiful ship carving with high and pointy ends and three more basic ones, all with the typical vertical "crew lines". The ship carvings are from 30-40cm in length.
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