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Bingsfoss Petroglyphs
Bingsfoss is a waterfall in Sørum, Lillestrøm and is a part of the river Glomma – the longest river in Norway. Below the waterfall, and along west side of the river, there is a hiking trail. Bingsfoss is also known as Bingsfossen. When walking down this trail there are two spots with petroglyphs next to…
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Ramberg Petroglyphs
Ramberg, or Rambergåsen, is an area with Bronze Age petroglyphs at Jeløy in Moss, Norway. The site is located in a rather large hiking area, and they can be a bit hard to spot along the trail. I didn’t see signs leading to the petroglyphs, but there is a small sign with information about the…
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Kalnes Petroglyphs
Kalnes is located in Sarpsborg, and is a part of Oldtidsruta in Østfold. Like the other rock carvings in the area, Kalnesfeltet is dated to the Nordic Bronze Age (1800 BCE -500 BCE). The carved figures at Kalnes are unique and interesting, but today they are difficult to see because they haven’t been repainted. There…
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Hafslund petroglyphs
The Hafslund petroglyphs are located in the fields close to Hafslund Manor (Hafslund Hovedgård) and Hafslundparken in Sarpsborg. The rock art is scattered among several exposed rock surfaces in the fields. The petroglyphs are unpainted, but some of them are still quite visible depending on the different types of rock they are carved into. The…
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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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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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Fortidens Norge / Prehistoric Norway Supported by Kulturrådet
My project about rock art in Norway is now funded by Kulturrådet (Arts Council Norway). The name of the project is Fortidens Norge, or Prehistoric Norway in English. The funding will allow me to work at least one year with the project. This summer I will travel to many different locations with rock art in…
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Moelv Petroglyphs Part 4
Some of the figures on side three the Moelv rock are made in a different style than the ones on side 1, and it is probable that more than one artist made the figures on the rock and possibly there were big gaps of time between the creation of some of the figures. The shape…
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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.
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Moelv Petroglyphs Part 3
Figure 4 and 5 on the Moelv rock are missing some parts due to damage to the rock, and I did a restoration for what the missing parts might have looked like: The abstract patterns within figure 4 and 5 are quite common in petroglyph animal figures. What the artists had in mind when adding…