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The Hunn Stone Circles
Hunnfeltene is an area of burial fields from the approximately 1000 BCE during the Nordic Bronze Age. The fields are in Fredrikstad and a part of Oldtidsruta. I made brief visit to one of these fields with stone circles on my way to sites with petroglyphs in the area.
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Begby Gullskår Petroglyphs
The Begby petroglyphs in Fredrikstad are dated to the Nordic Bronze Age (1800 BCE -500 BCE). This is the largest rock art site located along Oldtidsruta in Østfold. This site is usually just referred to as Begby, or Begbyfeltene – named after the nearby Begby farm. There are two main groups of petroglyphs at Begby,…
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Kongsten Fort
Kongsten Fort is a fortress in Fredrikstad built around 1680 and it’s located close to Old Town Fredrikstad. I spent the night in a tent at a nearby camping site after visiting petroglyph sites along Oldtidsruta.
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Hornesfeltet
Hornesfeltet is another one of the many petroglyph sites dated to the Nordic Bronze Age (1800 BCE -500 BCE) located along Oldtidsruta. Hornes is in Skjeberg, Sarpsborg Hornesfeltet mostly consists of ship figures, but there are also some cup marks (skålgroper) and one human. The painting had started to fade from many of the petroglyphs…
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Solbergfeltet
Solbergfeltet is located in Sarpsborg, and is among the many petroglyph sites located along Oldtidsruta in Østfold. Like the other rock carvings in the area, Solbergfeltet is dated to the Nordic Bronze Age (1800 BCE -500 BCE). The site has been adapted to universal accessibility. Solbergfeltet actually consists of two patches of rock carvings that…
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Bjørnstadfeltet
Bjørnstadfeltet is a site with petroglyphs in Sarpsborg and a part of Oldtidsruta. The site is also known as Bjørnstadskipet, or the Bjørnstad ship, because of the large ship figure dominating the site. The petroglyphs are dated to the Nordic Bronze Age (1800 BCE -500 BCE) The petroglyphs at the site are painted, but the…
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Maihaugen
I went to Drotten in Lillehammer to see the petroglyphs there, but area was inaccessible due to the high water levels at this time of year. So I visited the open-air museum Maihaugen, also in Lillehammer, instead.
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Glittersjå Fjellgård
Large deer species like Reindeer and Moose are very common in the Norwegian Stone Age petroglyphs. As part of the research for Fortidens Norge, where I use drawing to experiment with the interpretation of the Norwegian petroglyphs, I visited a farm with Reindeer and Moose to study these animals.
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Ekeberg Petroglyphs
I traveled to and photographed the petroglyphs at Ekeberg in Oslo for Fortidens Norge. These petroglyphs are dated to around 3000 BCE during the Nordic Stone Age. The location of the petroglyphs are fairly close to the Oslo city center, but I still managed to get a bit lost when driving there with the city…
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Møllerstufossen Petroglyphs
I visited and photographed the petroglyphs at Møllerstufossen by the river Etna in Dokka. Red paint is no longer applied to the petroglyphs at Møllerstufossen, as it can damage the petroglyphs. This can make some of them difficult to see. I’ll later use the images from the trip to draw different interpretations of the petroglyphs.