Rock Carvings at Vingen

One of the largest rock carving sites in Northern Europe, located along the Froysjoen strait in Bremanger, Vestland county, Norway. The site contains approximately 2,300 documented figures, predominantly deer, created over roughly two millennia from about 4000-2000 BC. First publicly documented in 1912 by Kristian Bing, though locals knew of the carvings since about 1884. The motifs may represent fertility symbolism or concepts of life, death and reincarnation. Closed to the public since 2002 by the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage due to conservation concerns.