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Italia |
Locality: |
Plas, Vite-Deria, Paspardo |
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Lombardia |
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Valcamonica |
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Environment & Surface |
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Altitude:
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800 m
Open-air
Shelter
Cave
Portable
Megalithic
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Geography: |
Rock
n° 15 of Vite-Deria Locality is in the middle of a chestnuts wood long
the road that connects Capo di Ponte to Paspardo. Around the rock there
are many similar engraved rock. All the rocks of Vite-Deria Locality are
in the Regional Park of Engravings of Ceto-Cimbergo-Paspardo
Municipalities. |
Proximity: |
Around rock n° 15, in
Vite-Deria Locality, there are a big wood of chestnuts, old huts
abandoned and the road that connects Capo di Ponte to Paspardo. There is
also a path that connects different engraved rocks. |
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Geology: |
Rock
n° 15 of Vite-Deria Locality is sand-stone polished by the glacier. The
colour is grey. Around rock n° 15 there are a lot of similar engraved
rock of sand-stone. |
Surface: |
The
surface is grey, convex, polished by the Pleistocene glacier. The
sand-stone of the rocks of Vite-Deria Locality is fragile and there are a
lot of detachments. |
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Dimensions:
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Length 1.70 m.
Width 1.80 m.
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Art |
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
On the rock 15 there are two representations of
fight, typical of Iron Age. In the first case there are two warriors
fighting and in the middle a bust (maybe the prize of the initiation
rite). In the second case there are three warriors weaponed with dagger
and small shield: one of the three is bigger. Then there are two figures
not finished and apparently not connected with fighting scenes: they
are two anthropomorphic figures in orante position but with weapons.
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Figures: |
total number 13
5 warriors, 1 bust, 2 figures not finished (anthropomorphic figures with weapons), 4 groups of points.
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Chronology: |
Palaeolithic
Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic
Neolithic
Copper Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Roman
Middle Age
Modern
Unknown
13 figures of Iron Age (Style IV 2-3; VII-V cent. BC).
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Conservation |
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Status: |
Public
Private
Park
Classified site
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Risk: |
The sand-stone of this area is fragile and there are on rocks a lot of detachments. |
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
Mediocre
Bad
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Intervention: |
Originally
the engraved surface was covered by grass and soil, which were removed
when discovered. The rocks of Vite-Deria locality have been completely
recorded (contact tracing, grazing light pictures) by Footsteps of Man
in 1989-2001. Until 1992 it was used to enlighten the figures the
neutral method. |
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