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This article contains a list of rock carvings in Norway. Locations. Rock carvings in the different counties of Norway: Agder:
The Bardal rock carvings contains images from both of the rock carving traditions.. Scandinavian rock art comprise two categories. The first type dates to the Stone Age (in Norway from between 8000-1800 BCE), and usually depicts mammals such as elk, red deer and reindeer, but also brown bears, whales and porpoises.
Detail from the rock carvings at Alta. The Rock art of Alta (Helleristningene i Alta) are located in and around Alta Municipality in Finnmark county in northern Norway.Since the first carvings were discovered in 1973, more than 6,000 carvings have been found on several sites around Alta.
Alta Museum is northern Norway's most-visited summer museum, with more than 1,000 visitors each day. [4] It is the second most visited attraction in Finnmark County. It presents exhibitions on local culture and historic industries including the nearby prehistoric rock carvings that form a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [5]
The Bardal rock carvings (Norwegian: Bardalfeltet) is a large collection of petroglyphs on Bardal Farm in Steinkjer Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway.What makes the rock carvings at Bardal especially noteworthy is the presence of figures from the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age all on the same rock surface, with the newer figures having been carved on top of figures from the Stone Age.
Hjemmeluftbukta or Jiepmaluokta (Northern Sami) is a bay in Alta Municipality, Finnmark, Norway. It is the main site for the rock carvings at Alta with about 3,000 individual carvings (petroglyphs). The bay lies on the southwestern edge of the town of Alta. The bay lies off of the main Altafjorden, at the entrance to the Kåfjorden.
The Vingen rock carvings (Norwegian: Vingenfeltet) are a set of petroglyphs located along the Frøysjøen strait in Bremanger Municipality in Vestland county, Norway.They are located about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) straight east of the village of Berle and about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) south of the village of Rugsund.
The rock carvings are accessible by a 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) long well-marked track starting from Balsfjord Church. The church (built in 1855) is located in Tennes, which is about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from the village of Storsteinnes (in Troms county in Norway ).