Blindern Hellerirstninger
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hbrx
N 59° 56.237 E 010° 43.029
32V E 595952 N 6645671
Pictographs surrounded by an university building in Oslo, Norway
Waymark Code: WM13PC
Location: Oslo, Norway
Date Posted: 01/05/2007
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While constructing the new building for the department of chemistry, University of Oslo they discovered a field of
Pictographs (Helleristninger in Norwegian).
The building was build 'around' some of the pictographs.
They now reside in the main entrance hall.
The pictographs is about 3000 years old, made in the
Bronze Age. The field inside the building consist
mainly of footprints and depressions.
On the outside fields, just south of the building
(hard to find) there are a few ships and some suns
as well as more footprints and depressions.
This place is believed to be sacred, and used in rituals to promote health and ferility among people
and animals.
The people that made theese printings were farmers.
Living nearby as the pictographs often were made
close to their fields. The ships points to the connection to the sea and trade.
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