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Name      
Italia    Valcamonica, Bagnolo 2
Italy map
Keywords: Copper Age, necklaces, sun, daggers, axes, animals, ploughing scene
Institution: Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo - Valcamonica (Footsteps of Man)   http://rupestre.net/orme   |   CONTACT
Record
proposed
by
 Orme dell'Uomo - Footsteps of Man, Valcamonica - Italy
 
Location

Country:

 Italia

Locality:

 Malegno, Ceresolo-Bagnolo

Region:

 Lombardia

Area:

 Valcamonica

 

rock art picture
The boulder Bagnolo 1 conserved in National Engravings Park, Naquane, Capo di Ponte (BS) - (Photo by F. Zaina from Pietre degli Dei 1994).
rock art picture
Complete tracing (tracing by Le Orme dell'Uomo - Civico Museo Archeologico di Bergamo)


 
Environment & Surface

Altitude:

625 m
Open-air   Shelter   Cave Portable   Megalithic

Geography:
Found at the base of Monte Mignone, on a morenic terrace, during the destroying of a farmer house. It has been conserved by the Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici till 1994.

Proximity:

 Near to a road that connotes with the centre of Malegno

Geology:
Sandstone erratic boulder

Surface:
Polished, convex, concave surface. Patina, cracks.

Dimensions:
Length 1.20 m.  Width 0.74 m.  Depth 0.50 m.

 

 
Art        

Description:

 Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
Malegno Municipality (BS-I), in the Bagnolo-Ceresolo site. The engravings are executed on a boulder by hammering. Almost all the engravings are concentrated on the frontal surface in the middle upper part of the surface. The boulder was an erratic stone.

Figures:
total number 16
Sun, axes, daggers of Remedello type, animals, ploughing scene, necklaces, pendant

Chronology:

 Palaeolithic   Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic   Neolithic   Copper Age   Bronze Age   Iron Age   Roman   Middle Age   Modern   Unknown
Copper Age (style III A 1; 2900/2800-2400 BC). The style IIIA1 (as defined by DE MARINIS) is dated by comparison between the engraved figures and the real objects (Copper Age daggers) found at the burial site of Remedello (BS). It is so called "Remedellian". The next style (IIIA2) pertains to a bell-beaker phase (2400-2200 BC).

Notes:
The boulder was discovered on 5 July 1972. More info about Valcamonica and Alpine Rock Art at http://rupestre.net/alps.
 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
Italia EuroPreArt general bibliography, by Cooperativa Archeologica <em>Le Orme dell'Uomo</em> - Valcamonica (Footsteps of Man)General (country)
Specific Valcamonica, Bagnolo 2 bibliography, by Cooperativa Archeologica <em>Le Orme dell'Uomo</em> - Valcamonica (Footsteps of Man)Specific (site)
Rock Art Studies: A Bibliographic worldwide Database (external link). Compiled by Leigh Marymor. Copyright (C) 2001-2002 by the Library, University of California, Berkeley Bibliographic
Rock Art
Database

 

 
Conservation        

Status:

 Public   Private   Park   Classified site

Risk:
There are problems of esfoliations with cracks.

Conservation:

 Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

Intervention:
After the tracing (1993) and the restoration at the moment the boulder is preserved in the National Park of Naquane at Capo di Ponte (Valcamonica-BS).

 
By          

Compiler:

 A. Fossati 2001

Institution:

 Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo - Valcamonica (Footsteps of Man)   http://rupestre.net/orme   |   CONTACT
 
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