Zajímavé, měl sem možnost Švédsko i vzdálene Norsko ostrov soroya navštívit a je to tam moc hezké a s detikem by to tam bylo asi zajmavé. Pěkné čtení super díky 
2700-year-old petroglyphs hiding under the moss
Categories: Nálezy nejenom s detektorem ve Skandinávii
A group of petroglyphs from the Late Norse Bronze Age was discovered in Bohuslän in southwest Sweden. Forty figures including thirteen ships, nine horses, seven people and four chariots were hidden on a rock under a thick layer of moss. In their time, they must have been visible from far away. This is the largest discovery of Bronze Age petroglyphs in the 21st century to date.
The engravings were discovered on a rock in the pastures of the parish of Kville by archaeologists Andreas Toreld and Tommy Andersson from the Bohuslän Foundation for the Documentation of Rock Engravings. They first saw a small part of one of the ships in a partially exposed, otherwise dense moss cover. When they removed the moss, they found a number of other petroglyphs carved into the almost perfectly flat surface of the stone.
2,700 years ago there was a shoreline here; today the rock rises about 13 metres above sea level. Artists back then had to stand on boats to make these now very rare works. Some of the paintings are remarkably large. For example, one of the boats is over 2 m wide, one of the human figures is a metre high. The engravings are deeply incised, their white colour contrasting sharply with the grey background.
Because data on the height of the sea at different times are known, it was possible to date the work with great precision. The engraving could not have been made before the 8th century BC, when the stone emerged from the receding waters. After the 7th century, artists would have had to use ladders. But such carving in straight lines several meters long on a ladder/platform is extremely difficult, if not impossible.
The province of Bohuslän on the rocky coast of Sweden consists of more than 8,000 islands and islets. More than 1,500 rock art sites have been documented here, most dating back to the Bronze Age in Scandinavia. Yet these are only a fraction of the estimated total number of petroglyphs in the area. For more than 20 years, the Bohuslän Rock Carving Documentation Foundation has been searching for previously unknown petroglyphs and systematically documenting them.
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Sources: fof.se, svenskhistoria.se, svt.se
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