Rock carvings on the Sigersted church
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The rock carvings at Sigersted Kirke are in Sigersted , east of Sorø on the Danish island of Zealand .
On a stone surrounded by brick masonry at the base of the west side of the church tower stands, in addition to other mostly smaller unadorned stones, a 1.4 m high, 1.3 m wide stone made of reddish granite in which a wheel cross ( Danish Hjulkors ) and several bowls ( Danish Skåltegn ) are engraved.
On the south side of the tower there is also a larger, flat, smooth stone with a cylindrical depression about 15 cm in diameter and 8 cm deep. The stone is about 1.15 m high and 1.1 m wide.
Such petroglyphs ( Danish Hellristningar ) of the iconography of the Nordic prehistory generally come from the Bronze Age . The wheel cross is an image of the sun or the sun disk , on the other hand, according to the Danish archaeologist Flemming Kaul, it can be interpreted as a symbol for the day-night cycle and the cycle of the seasons . In the Middle Ages it was used as a consecration cross on church buildings.
See also
literature
- Flemming Kaul: The Myth of the Sun's Journey. Representations on bronze objects from the late Bronze Age. In: Gold and Cult of the Bronze Age. (Exhibition catalog) Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg 2003, ISBN 3-926982-95-0 .
- Peter Vilhelm Glob : Helleristninger i Danmark (= Jysk Arkæologisk Selskabs skrifter. Volume 7). Jysk Arkæologisk Selskab, Højbjerg 1969, ISSN 0107-2854 .
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Coordinates: 55 ° 25 '50.3 " N , 11 ° 43' 53.2" E