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Date UncertainSite Name: Cupstone Menhir Viggar Valley Tyrol Alternative Name: Cupstone Viggar OberlegerCountry: Austria Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Innsbruck Nearest Village: Ellbögen
Latitude: 47.122100N Longitude: 11.302300E
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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This Cupstone-Menhir is in good shape, it was originally standing about 50m higher on an old path to the south. Nearby is the biggest monolith in the Alps, "The Written Stone", weighing about 60 tonnes. This seems to have been an old Sun cult place with a nearby Abri (shelter), where archaeologists found Silex working tools and arrowheads.
Dating is difficult, but the oldest archaeological site nearby in the Fotschervalley was dated 12.500 BC. It is a classic alpine signpost translation you can read on the posted painting.
Foto was done by our partner Ing.Josef Höfer and translation by Herbert Kirnbauer.
Thomas Walli-Knofler
Innsbruck
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