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Italia |
Locality: |
Cemmo, Pian delle Greppe |
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Region: |
Lombardia |
Area: |
Valcamonica |
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Environment & Surface |
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Altitude:
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400 m
Open-air
Shelter
Cave
Portable
Megalithic
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Geography: |
Boulder
is found in the plain called Pian delle Greppe at Cemmo, fraction of
Capo di Ponte (BS). East oriented. The land was used for grapes, now on
for pastures. |
Proximity: |
Not far from the road that
connects Cemmo to Capo di Ponte, in front of the local museum and the
Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici. |
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Geology: |
Slide boulders, sandstone. |
Surface: |
vertical, smoothed, patinated. |
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Dimensions:
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Length 2.60 m.
Width 3.10 m.
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Art |
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
Capo di Ponte Municipality (BS-I), in the Pian
delle Greppe site. The engravings are executed on a boulder, felt from
the top of the mountain in prehistoric times, by hammering. Almost all
the engravings are concentrated on the frontal surface in the middle
upper part of the surface. There are figures also in the left side of
the boulder.
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Figures: |
total number 118
Sun, axes, daggers of Remedello type, animals, ploughing scene
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Chronology: |
Palaeolithic
Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic
Neolithic
Copper Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Roman
Middle Age
Modern
Unknown
Copper Age (style III A 1-2; 2900/2800-2200
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).
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Notes: |
The
boulder was first discovered by G. Laeng in 1902, that then presented
the discoveries to the Commitee of the National Monuments in 1909, and
then published it in 1914. During the end of the '20 P. Graziosi and G.
Marro came to Cemmo to study the boulder. More info about Valcamonica
and Alpine Rock Art at http://rupestre.net/alps. |
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Conservation |
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Status: |
Public
Private
Park
Classified site
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Risk: |
There
are problem of esfoliations with cracks. There are traces of vandalism
of German soldiers during the last war: they shot the boulder with a
bullet gun. |
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
Mediocre
Bad
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Intervention: |
The
boulder has been traced and restored few times. It is visited by many
students during the year. It is inserted in the national Park of rock
engravings. |
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