Rock carving 379 on Fårö

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The west-east-oriented rock carving 379 on Fårö ( RAÄ Fårö 379: 1) was discovered in 1997 near Bagghagen, southeast of the hamlet Lansa, in the west of the southern half of the island of Fårö , near Gotland in Sweden and is 3.8 × 1.0 m big. The outcrop slopes slightly to the northwest. The incision consists of 18 bowls , five ships, a sword, an animal and nine fragmentary incisions. One of them may represent a human.

The ships are 22 to 55 cm long, with or without a single-row crew. The four-legged animal is 29 cm tall. The sword is 49 cm long. The fragments are 10 to 33 cm long. The bowls are 3.0 to 6.0 cm in diameter and 0.2 to 2.0 cm deep. Some of the lines of the occupation line have bowls for heads. This means either the bowl pits were in front of the ships and will be reused as heads, or, and this is more likely, they represent important people. On Fårö the bowls are more evenly distributed over the field and significantly less than in Lärbro. Some appear in the context of ships, but not clearly.

The rock carving has a greater variety of motifs than other carvings on Gotland or Fårö (there are 19 other carvings here), but it is relatively small. The ships can be interpreted in the same way as those in Lärbro (solar barges or travel and trade). Four of the five ships are manned. The sword is the only weapon depicted. There is no one holding the sword, which is depicted in natural size. It is not a fight scene, but has to be interpreted as sword symbolism. The combination of ships and weapons, but here a sword instead of Lärbro's axes, should indicate travel and trade.

See also

literature

  • Bertil Almgren: Living prehistory. Bronze Age rock art from Sweden. Special exhibition. Compiled by the Archaeological Institute of Uppsala University. State Museum for Natural History and Prehistory, Oldenburg 1980.

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Coordinates: 57 ° 54 '48.4 "  N , 19 ° 5' 23.1"  E