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Battle to save pristine prehistoric rock art from vast new quarry in Norway

Archaeologists fear more than 2,000 carved figures in Vingen could be destroyed when digging begins

One of the largest and most significant sites of rock art in northern Europe is under “catastrophic” threat.

The Vingen carvings, in Vestland county, Norway, are spectacular, and include images of human skeletons and abstract and geometric designs. Even the hammer stones, the tools used by the ancient artists to create their compositions, have survived.

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