Take a look at what a rock carving hunter found

Sciencenorway.no ^ | January 31, 2026 | Bård Amundsen

[SunkenCiv]

When the experienced rock carving hunter Tormod Fjeld was driving his daughter Ada to a nearby location, the two of them decided to take a closer look beneath Kolsåstoppen, a hill in Bærum, Eastern Norway.

That was when they found something remarkable: magnificent ships carved into the rock.

Perhaps these carvings show people in Norway 3,000 years ago -- sitting in their ship, maybe even wearing helmets.

They also spotted a large footprint of the sole of a foot, as well as a hand with five thick fingers.

And then more ships appeared -- some carved upright, others upside down.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

How could they have carved such hard rock?

[GingisK]

That clearly was possible. I think people underestimate the ancients.

[Inyo-Mono]

I’ve never found so much as an arrowhead, but of course, precolumbian Michigan was a swamp.

I actually stumbled upon a 19th Century Paiute Indian camp; several stone circles, laid out in the high desert near where I live.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

They call them "Rock Carvings" but its not "Carving", more like chipping and abrading. (Etching?)

You can rub the surface with another hard rock or use the rock to chip away at the surface. A very slow process.

Sometimes fathers would make these to memorialize sons who were part of a Viking ship and who died in a foreign land. (Modern Russia or Britain.)

[weezel]

I wondered if anyone would get that!

[SunkenCiv]

With a fragment of the same type of rock.