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Rock ArtSite Name: SporanesetCountry: Norway Fylke: Telemark Type: Rock Art
Nearest Village: Raulandsgrend
Latitude: 59.709186N Longitude: 8.023281E
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 Telemark
This rock art site is one of the most interesting locations of any rock art site I have visited maybe next to the Bruteigsteinen in Hordaland. The rock art site is located on a small rocky outcrop reaching out in the Totak lake and the rock carvings are at the water's edge, sometimes being washed over by the fresh water of the lake! The site has been equipped with a information poster and a small path leads out on the outcrop. The rock art site is also the largest rock art site in the inner regions of east Norway.
The rock art site is very unique since it has both of the two types of carvings, "hunting and gathering" carvings and "agricultural" carvings, suggesting the rock art are from both time periods of Stone Age (5000 to 2000AD) and Bronze Age (1800 to 500AD). The Stone Age carvings have pictures of elks and the bronze age carvings are mostly ships and foot soles.
The rock art panel has the carvings of a total of 60 figures. Three elks are carved close together in the center of the site and just next to the elks are some rectangular squares with cross lines suggesting they picture pit hunting that was common in ancient times where a pit would be dug and the top covered with branches and the animal would fall down into the pit. Not an uncommon picture from stone age rock art sites.
The most common picture on this site are foot soles. All in all there are five pairs of foot soles and 11 single soles. The soles vary in size from 20cm in length to around 30-40cm. In the centre of the site is a large boat carving with 16 vertical "crew lines", a very common bronze age picture. The boat is around 40cm in length. Close to the boat are two carvings of what looks like people and also a lot of unidentifiable pictures. There are also a few circle figures.
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