The rock outcrop at Vigdel, near Stavanger, Norway is approximately 3 square metres of heavily weathered Bronze Age carvings representing boats amongst other motifs. We scanned this panel as part of the Bergkunstseminaret 2002 as a demonstration of our outdoor 3D laser scanning expertise on heavily worn and relatively inaccessible surfaces.

The panel’s carvings are now less than 1mm deep in most places and almost indistinguishable except under the most oblique of lighting conditions.

Vigdel Bronze Age rock art

Our laser scan resolved all of the known detail on the carvings and provided suggestions of other unrecorded carvings.

Related Links

• Riksantikvaren - Bergkunstseminaret 2002