A Theatre of Imagery
The Rock Carving of Döltorp, Skee Parish, Bohuslän, Sweden
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8890727 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Coles (0000-0001-5822-1103, John Innes Centre, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 91 |
| Pages | 1-25 |
| Publication date | 2011-07-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Antiquaries Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-5815 • E-ISSN: 1758-5309 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003581511000084 |
| OpenAlex | W2147481418 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 6 |
The parish of Skee, in western Bohuslän, has a wide variety of ancient monuments, among which is a small rock at Döltorp that displays a range of Bronze Age and Early Iron Age rock carvings. The new recording presented here identifies a number of hitherto unrecognized images and details. Some of the carvings are now considered to be of the late second millennium bc , while the bulk of the images are of mid-first millennium bc date. They include a particularly large decorated boat, with its crew finely detailed, as well as a number of carvings of warriors, discs, horses, spirals and smaller boats. The site lies in a landscape well inland from the Bronze Age shoreline, and its selection for carving was probably related to the existence of an earlier cairn high on a ridge to the west of the rock-carving site, perhaps linked to it by additional stones. Other sites in the immediate lowland region suggest that we should not view such sites as static creations; rather, we should consider them to have had long and episodic lives, maintaining and augmenting a societal awareness over many generations
Archaeology · Bronze Age · Cartography · Carving · Cliff · Geography · Ridge · Rock shelter · Shore · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geology · Historical and Archaeological Studies · Oceanography
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0,58 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |