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Italia |
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Rivoli, Monsagnasco |
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Piemonte |
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Valsusa |
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Environment & Surface |
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Altitude:
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404 m
Open-air
Shelter
Cave
Portable
Megalithic
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Geography: |
Morainic hilly amphitheatre, ridge, chestnuts wood |
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Geology: |
Micaschist, quartz. The boulder was transported there by the glacier. |
Surface: |
Flat, irregular, from 10° to 40° of inclination |
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Dimensions:
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Length 1.90 m.
Width 0.90 m.
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Art |
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
The surface shows a large concentrations of
cup-marks, which are regular, of middle size (max 9 cm large) and
polished. The footprint-like basin is 37 cm long, 15 cm large and 4 cm
deep. Channels reach the basin or the external limit
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Figures: |
total number 66
61 cup-marks, 1 footprint like figure, 4 channels
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Chronology: |
Palaeolithic
Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic
Neolithic
Copper Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Roman
Middle Age
Modern
Unknown
The dating of the cup-marked stone has always
been controversial. Various elements anyway make probable an Iron Age
dating for the similar Alpine cup-marks, as an iron tool is needed for
deep and vertical- wall engravings. The study of the superimpositions in
the Rupe Magna (Valtellina - I), where cup-marks cover some warriors
figures, clarify an Iron Age dating, also confirmed by the Susa (I)
cup-marks, executed over a rock cut with an iron pick and overlapped by a
Roman building. In this case the footprint-like basin recalls the
middle Iron Age footprints of Valcamonica and the first Iron Age burial
slab of Sesto Calende, engraved with cup-marks and footprints.
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Notes: |
The
rock was the first cup-marked stone ever discovered in Piedmont, and
probably in Italy, in 1881 by G. Piolti, who was studying the morainic
area for geologic surveys. He dug all around the stone only finding a
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Conservation |
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Status: |
Public
Private
Park
Classified site
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Risk: |
The rock is safe still the wood is preserved. |
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
Mediocre
Bad
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