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England's Rock Art: Rock art designs

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England's rock art is almost all abstract; no representational figures are known other than the animal figures at Goatscrag Rock Shelter, which are of indeterminate age. While the art is mostly curvilinear, Neolithic (and possibly Early Bronze Age) people also occasionally made square shaped designs, such as the grid pattern at Fowberry Enclosure 1, and the rectangular grooves enclosing cups at Amerside Law 3a. England's rock art shows the ingenuity of carvers who used a relatively small number of motifs to create a range of designs that vary from the simple to the more complex.


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