Maarten van Hoek The Geography of Cup-and-Ring ... - StoneWatch

across the valley towards Tinizong. The view to the south from
Savognin is blocked by high mountains. This slab bears two cupules with
one ring and one cupule with possibly four rings all rather crudely
pocked out. There are no grooves and no single cupmarks.
* 1.4.1.2.3.1 The second route used the San Bernardino pass
(B in Fig. 65) and the Via Mala north of it. The last stretch of the Via
Mala (V) just SW of Carschenna was (and still is) rather dangerous and
one had to deviate either to the western slopes or turn to the NE via a
steep and dangerous scree slope. According to Schwegler (pers. comm.)
this NE route to Lenzerheide via Carschenna played a rather important
role in earlier days.
The rock art sites of
Carschenna are not
right on this route,
but a little north of
it. Most decorated
rocks are situated on
the edge of a steep
map
escarpment (Fig. 66
and Fig. 69) and they
overlook the valley of
the Lower Rhine to
the north.
Contrary to Tinizong,
Carschenna has been
used intermittently
over a long period. It
features a number of
FIG. 66: LOCATION OF CARSCHENNA.
distinct deep grooves,
which run indiscriminately across some of the earlier glyphs. This is
especially evident at Rock II where a system of long grooves cuts right
through cup-and-rings (Fig. 67). A rather
lightly pecked cup-and-three-rings at Rock
II features a very small central cup and a
shallow radial groove. Almost touching this
glyph are two deeply carved broad grooves
with rather sharp edges that are not in line
with the radial groove. These have been
added distinctively later in order to create
a so-called degraded keyhole (Fig. 71). At
Rock III, rather short grooves (many
ending dangerously close at the edge of the
cliff) have been cut from and across cupand-rings
(and in one case also from a
FIG. 67: ROCK II.
hybrid spiral) as to imitate radial grooves.
M. van HOEK: 96
GEOGRAPHY