Cup-marked stone, Zermatt-Hubelwäng, Switzerland

3D Model

Cup-marked stone in the Matter valley near Zermatt, Switzerland (for a map see http://goo.gl/LbrI1i). Recorded in April 2016. The flat quartzite slab ist situated next to the hiking trail from Herbrigg to Zmutt at around 2000 m ASL with a panoramic view including the Matterhorn.

Measuring ca. 4.8 x 3 m, the stone shows prehistoric cup marks and symbolic petroglyphs as well as modern initials and the date 1762. See https://skfb.ly/68RqY for a Matcap rendering which brings out the petroglyphs a lot better than the textured model.

For further details (in German) see http://www.ssdi.ch/Inventar/VS/3920.01.pdf and J. Reinhard, Was in den Rucksack passt… In: Chr. Rinne et al. (ed.), Vom Bodenfund zum Buch - Archäologie durch die Zeiten. Festschrift für Andreas Heege. Historische Archäologie Sonderband 1 (Bonn 2017), 503-520. URL: http://www.histarch.uni-kiel.de/sonderband01.htm. Supplemental material including a high resolution model can be accessed via https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3373712.