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Rock ArtSite Name: Meltingen SchalensteinCountry: Switzerland
NOTE: This site is 1.557 km away from the location you searched for.
Canton: Solothurn Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Solothurn
Latitude: 47.387960N Longitude: 7.589450E
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 Solothurn
Flat block with 5 cup marks of 4 - 8 cm Ø, of which two are conical and one probably natural. A second block has been destroyed.
The stone is located at The municipal house, Hauptstrasse 54, Meltingen. This is not the site of the discovery.
References:
Swiss Inventory of Stone Monuments, http://www.ssdi.ch.
Link to SSDI Object No. 4233.01 PDF document in German.
Link to Municipality of Meltingen, History Written in German.
Note to site admins: You already have a photo of this stone, submitted on 10th October 2023 by silex1948. He (or she) put the title “Meltingen Cup Stone”. Would you please link in this photo? Thank you so much.
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