View E of the lower (NE) of two labyrinth carvings on a rock face in Rocky Valley near Tintagel, Cornwall, England, UK: prehistoric or more recent?
View E of the lower (NE) of two labyrinth carvings on a rock face in Rocky Valley near Tintagel, Cornwall, England, UK. Some believe the carvings are genuine examples of Bronze Age rock art with links to such carvings at Val Camonica in northern Italy, Game of Troy funeral rituals in honour of Anchises as described by Virgil, the Cretan maze, graffiti at Pompeii, patterns on Etruscan vases & Early Christian one-path mazes. 'Discovered' in 1948, the carvings may have been sharply incised with a metal tool on a quarried rock face during the last 100 years or so. One suggestion is that they are copies of prehistoric or Early Christian carvings once visible on the rock. There are dark, oily marks on the carvings where people have touched them & traced the patterns with their fingers. Coins have been hammered into cracks & other offerings are left near to the carvings. Rocky Valley was purchased by the National Trust in 1996 using a donation from Peter Briggs.
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Location: Rocky Valley Rock Carvings, Trethevey, Tintagel, Camelford, Cornwall, England, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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