Filter in use code="bedln005" found 1 record/s
Presentation  |  Structure  |  Guidelines  |  GOTO all records list    |    Viewing record 479 / 807 of euro.dbf   
First Previous Next Last

 
NEW: Alpine rock paintings
enter the Balma dei Cervi Virtual Museum and surf the Virtual Tour: spherical pano-views,
hi-def flat photos and tracings
Name      
Italia    Valcamonica, Rock 5 of Bedolina EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art
Italy map
Keywords: maps, oranti, Iron Age, Bronze Age, Copper Age
Institution: Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo (Footsteps of Man)  http://rupestre.net/orme
Record
proposed
by
 Orme dell'Uomo - Footsteps of Man, Valcamonica - Italy
 
Location
Specific feedbackSpecific feedback

Country:

 Italia

Locality:

 Bedolina, Pescarzo

Region:

 Lombardia

Area:

 Valcamonica

 

click to enlarge
General view of the rock 5 of Bedolina and of the hut, so called "Bait del Pistunsì" (photo Marchi - Orme dell'Uomo 1995)
click to enlarge
Copyright. No commercial use of EuroPreArt content is allowed. Specific © for pictures and drawings is mentioned in the captions or owned by each Author or Institution.
Disclaim. The EuroPreArt project fully endorses the most recent documentation policies. It must be outlined the absolute forbidding of any disruptive method and the necessity of a total respect for archaeological sites. It is also to be noticed that no substances shall be applied to rock art for recording purposes. Some pictures of the EuroPreArt records are related to past recording techniques and may not fully match these policies. They are an historical documentation. Please refer to local archaeological official authorities for any recording purpose. Please take a look also over EuroPreArt guidelines.
 
Environment & Surface

Altitude:

530 m
Open-air   Shelter   Cave Portable   Megalithic

Geography:
The rock 5 of Bedolina is on a prominent terrace in the right side of the Valcamonica. The orientation of the rock is north-south. Around the slope the land is used for pasture and farmland.

Proximity:

 Close to the path and to the way between Capo di Ponte and Pescarzo. Small alpine hut near.

Geology:
The rock is a flat surface of sandstone (Verrucano Lombardy), polished by the Pleistocene glacier.

Surface:
Flat and convex rock of sandstone, polished by the glacier with a rectangular shape. There are many natural cracks on the surface and some anthropic damages due to a cableway.

Dimensions:
Length 17.50 m.  Width 9.30 m.

 

click to enlarge
click to enlarge
 
Art        

Description:

 Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
Rock 5 of Bedolina, in the Capo di Ponte Municipality (BS-I), near the village of Pescarzo, locality name Bedolina. Engravings executed by percussion and by scratching. Horizontal surface. Shape rectangular. Engravings are concentrated in all the rock (17,50m x 9,30m), oriented north-south, positioned near a cultivated area. Near the rock there are other surfaces with similar engravings of the same period, among which the famous Map of Bedolina. The surface is polished by the Pleistocene glacier. The engravings are especially of warriors, but there are also oranti (praying figures), animals, maps, one star and cup marks. The cup marks have in some cases around three or four scratched circles.

Figures:
total number 352
120 anthropomorphs, 57 animals, 2 huts, 1 inscription, 70 groups of dots, 20 scratched figures, 43 not identified figures, 1 wheel, 1 star, 1 tris figure (tria game), 12 cup marks, 1 map and 5 rectangular figures.

Chronology:

 Palaeolithic   Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic   Neolithic   Copper Age   Bronze Age   Iron Age   Roman   Middle Age   Modern   Unknown
There are eighth phases of engravings from Copper Age (3400-2200 BC) until Bronze Age (2200-800 BC) and Iron Age (800-100 BC)

Notes:
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 Le Orme dell'Uomo (Footsteps of Man)General (country)
Specific Valcamonica, Rock 5 of Bedolina bibliography, by Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo (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

 

click to enlarge
click to enlarge
 
Conservation        

Status:

 Public   Private   Park   Classified site

Risk:
In the sector L of the rock 5 there are two white areas due to an illegal casting and in the north part of the rock there are some anthropic damages due to a cableway.

Conservation:

 Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

Intervention:
Originally the engraved surface was covered by grass and soil, which were removed when discovered (1970). The rock has been completely recorded (contact tracing, grazing light pictures) by Monica Alchieri in 1996-1997 for her doctoral thesis of degree University of Study of Milan).

 
By          

Compiler:

 E. Marchi 2001

Institution:

 Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo (Footsteps of Man)  http://rupestre.net/orme
 
         Record n. 479 / 807
No commercial use is allowed. Specific © is mentioned in the captions or owned by each Author or Institution  
 
GOTO all records list    |    Viewing record 479 / 807 of euro.dbf          First Previous Next Last

NEW: Alpine rock paintings
enter the Balma dei Cervi Virtual Museum and surf the Virtual Tour: spherical pano-views,
hi-def flat photos and tracings


EuroPreArt, European Prehistoric Art, is a web-based archaeological project funded by the European Union which aims to establish a lasting data-base of European prehistoric art documentation, to launch the base of an European institutional network and to contribute to the awareness of the diversity and richness of European Prehistoric Art.
It is proposed by: Instituto Politécnico de Tomar (IPT, Portugal), CUEBC - European University Centre for Cultural Heritage (Italy - Europe), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España), Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón (España), Université de Liège (Belgique), Gotland University College (Sverige), University College Dublin (Eire), Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo (Italia), Study Centre and Museum of Prehistoric Art of Pinerolo (Italia), The European Centre for Prehistoric Research in the Alto Ribatejo (Portugal), ArqueoJovem - a youth NGO (Portugal).
Instituto Politécnico de Tomar - Portugal CUEBC - European University Centre for Cultural Heritage, Ravello - Italy CSIC - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid - Spain Orme dell'Uomo - Footsteps of Man, Valcamonica - Italy Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón, Extremadura -Spain Liège University - Belgium Gotland University - Sweden University College Dublin - Ireland CeSMAP - Centro Studi e Museo d'Arte Preistorica. Pinerolo, Italy Arqueo Jovem
| CONTACT | Web-mastering, graphics, structure and database management by  A. Arcà  - Footsteps of Man - DBF data powered by