Q.P CTO National Heritage Board RockCare - protection of European rock carvings Presentation of the different aims, activities, and schedules within the project heritage cultural of Work cofinanced from the European Commission, Directorate-General laboratory Education and Culture. Raphael-programme. RockCare Tanum 1999 2000 2001 Digitalisering av redan tidigare utgivna vetenskapliga publikationer Dessa fotografier är offentliggjorda vilket innebär att vi använder oss av en undantagsregel i 23 och 49 a §§ lagen (1960:729) om upphovsrätt till litterära och konstnärliga verk (URL). Undantaget innebär att offentliggjorda fotografier får återges digitalt i anslutning till texten i en vetenskaplig framställning som inte framställs i förvärvssyfte. Undantaget gäller fotografier med både kända och okända upphovsmän. Bilderna märks med ©. Det är upp till var och en att beakta eventuella upphovsrätter. SWEDISH NATIONAL HERITAGE BOARD RIKSANTIKVARIEÄMBETET Contents RockCare - Tanum laboratory of cultural heritage Aims 2 Presentation of the different activities within the project 4 Seminars 4 Presentation 4 Preservation 21 Documentation 26 Organisation of the RockCare project 35 Collaborating partners 35 Project management 39 RockCare - The project 2 RockCare-Tanum laboratory of cultural heritage The rock-carvings in Tanum in Sweden represent the March 2001 at the latest. Reports will be presented in peak of artistic and pictorial achievement in the traditional hard-copy format and also on the project website: European Bronze Age. The European rock-carvings are www.raa/rockcare.se . a cultural heritage under constant threat. Destruction Aims is mainly due to natural weather erosion, such as exfoliation from frost and heat, and also to air pollu­ The RockCare project has four main aims: tion. If nothing is done to prevent this negative effect on the environment, a great number of rock-carvings 1. To arrange seminars and meetings so that the will be totally wiped out over the next twenty years. RockCare project can use the help of a network of The Swedish National Heritage Board therefore decided to international experts. start the project “Rockare-Tanum laboratory of cultural 2. To develop new methods for the presentation of heritage”. In November 1998 and in July 1999 the European rock-carvings and to improve access to sites of Commission gave a grant to the National Heritage Board for archaeological interest, especially the rock-carvings Stage i and subsequently Stage 2 of the RockCare project in Tanum. within the framework of the Raphael programme. The 3. To elaborate further methods for protection against European Commission has granted a total of 400 000 Euro to the project and the Swedish government will contribute environmental destruction and deterioration. the equivalent amount. 4. To develop new methods for documentation and to The project will be carried out from December 1998 to make efforts to make results comparable between March 2001. Reports from the project will be produced con­ different counties. tinuously and a final report will be issued at the end of RockCare - The project 3 The three major rock engraving areas of Europe Left: The panel with the boat image of the Rock Care logo at Gerum, Tan urn. Photo: Ragnar Utne Top right: View of the Italian Alps, Valcamonica. Bottom right: View of Vallée de Merveilles at Mont Bego. RockCare - The project 4 Presentation of the different activities within the project The purpose of this catalogue is to present an over­ Seminars view of the RockCare project. This includes organisa The RockCare project is building up a network of interna­ tion, aims, activities, partners, results etc. Since the tional experts in order to find methods for protection from project is at the halfway stage, the presentation environmental pollution and deterioration. The purpose is reflects the actual situation in which some activities also to develop new methods for documentation and presen­ tation of this shared archaeological cultural heritage. already have taken place, others are ongoing and others have yet to take place. RockCare - Seminars 5 RockCare - The project 6 20tb~22tid December 1998 i6tb-2^rd June 1999 Initial seminar in Tanum, Sweden Expert meeting and workshop in Tanum, Sweden At the initial seminar, the project was presented for the A major event during 1999 was the meeting of experts and Municipality of Tanum, the general public and the press, workshop held in Tanum in June. About 40 experts from with the involvement of international experts from Italy and Italy, France, Portugal, Russia, Finland, Norway, Denmark Denmark. In addition, delegates from Vitlycke Museum, the and Sweden, together with representatives from the Euro­ Bohuslän Museum, the County Administrative Board of pean Commission in Brussels and the Ministry of Culture in Västra Götaland and The Swedish National Heritage Board Sweden took part. also took part. Future activities were discussed, and respons­ During the meeting, different methods of preservation ibilities were allocated between the participating institutions. and documentation were presented and discussed and demonstrated in the field. In addition, a number of expert The new Vitlycke Museum built in 1998, is constructed by the architect lectures open to the general public Carl Nyrén. Photo: Ulf Geländer. were held. The aim was to spread knowledge about the project as widely as possible. A summary of the activities that took place including the lectures in English is presented on the homepage of the Swedish National Heritage Board: www.raa.se/rockcare . Antonio Martino Baptista, Portugal and Umberto Sansoni, Italy in discussion. The participants of the expert meeting visiting the research station, Litsleby. Carlo Avetta, DC X, to the right. RockCare - Seminars 7 ist-13 tb August 1999 Different methods of documentation was tested i.e. Documentation seminar in Valcamonica, Italy depiction by contouring on transparent plastic and frottage During two weeks in August 1999 ten participants from on high quality paper. Due to frequent showers the method Sweden, Norway and Denmark visited the Centro Camuno of contouring on plastic was not used since it requires exten­ di Studi Preistorici (CCSP) in Capo di Ponte, Valcamonica in sive preparation of the panels including chalking. This Italy. The purpose of the visit was to participate in the annu ­ method, which is frequently used in Sweden, also includes al seminar on field documentation of rock-carvings, held this year at Campanine, Valcamonica, under the leadership of Professor Umberto Sansoni. Apart for the Nordic delegation, approx. 30 participants attended the seminar: students from Italy, Austria, Australia, Canada and South-Korea together with local school children and non-professionals. Surveying by using geological compass. Visitors at the entrance of Luine Park. View of Valcamonica. the use of artificial light at night. Due to the distinct charac­ The seminar also includ ­ ter of the Camunian engravings this was judged not to be ed a number of lectures by necessary, although a test performed in cloudy afternoon Professor Emanuel Anati of light indicated some of the benefits of the methodregardless the CCSP. The topics ranged of the local conditions. from a general overview of Surveying and geological mapping were also carried out World Rock Art to a specific in the lower Campanine area - “Val Vikingos ”, where a presentation of the Rock Art number of panels were newly- or re-discovered. Records on of Valcamonica. plastic and frottage were carried out and the documents have It was agreed that the later been scanned and digitised. The Italian plastic depic­ project website would be tions presented some difficulties in scanning due to their translated into Italian and thickness. A general damage overview of the Campanine area linked to the CCSP website. was made. The regional Swedish The second week of the seminar included visits to the Television Company TV- parks of Paspardo, Cimbergo and Luine. The architect Fyrstad filmed the seminar Titziana Cittadini was the official in charge who directed the on location as part of a film visits. During the visits different aspects of presentation and project (see below). Some conservation were discussed. A visit was also made to the site features were presented on at Valtellina with its numerous halberd carvings. the national news in A comparison of the respective computerised recording Sweden. forms used in Sweden and Italy was inaugurated. The work is focusing on the possibility of constructing and applying a common standard of documentation. A first step is likely to Conservation works at panel 24, involve mapping of the similarities and differences in the Luine Park, Darto Boario Terme. existing databases in order to create an interface. A gradation is handy to measure the engraving. RockCare - Seminars 9 2 3 ni-2 7 tb A ugus 11999 Expert meeting in Nice andTendes, France In the last week of August three Swedish experts were invited to visit the Laboratoire Departemental de Prehistoire du Lazaret in Nice and Musée de Merveilles in Tende. The meet­ ing was hosted by prof. Henry de Lumley of the CRNS and Dr. Annie Echassoux of Lazaret. During the meeting the exhibition of Musée de Merveilles and the excavations at Grotte de Lazaret in Nice were presented including the com­ puterised registration system being in use since the 1970 at the excavation. Two days were spent on Monte Bego to study the Calco- lithic rock carvings at Vallée de Merveilles and Fontanalba. The engravings are dominated by designs like the corniforms - highly stilised bulkheads. More sparsely represented are antropomorphs i.e. the unique “le Chef de Tribou”. The location of these engravings close to the peaks of the Monte Bego Alps at an altitude between 2000 and 2500 meters RockCare - The project 10 present some externe climatic conditions, which have a certain impact on the state of conservation of the panels. In order to study and to preserve some of the panels a number of castings in materials like latex and gypsum have been pro­ duced during the years.