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Country: |
Italia |
Locality: |
Ossimo Inferiore, c/o Elementary School |
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Region: |
Lombardia |
Area: |
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: |
The site is a little plateau in the Municipality of Ossimo Inferiore, is not used today for pasture and agriculture but this was the use of the past as it is testified by the presence of ancient houses on the main road. The road take you to the centre of the town |
Proximity: |
The site is near to a road that put in connection Ossimo and Lozio: from this road starts a path that brings you to the site. |
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Geology: |
Geologically the site is formed by limestone. Ossimo 8 is a boulder constituted by sandstone, probably of erratic origins. |
Surface: |
The boulder Ossimo 8 was fitted in the ground vertically, as a menhir. |
Dimensions:
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Length 2.50 m.
Width 0.80 m.
Depth 0.70 m.
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Art |
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
Ossimo municipality (BS) in Elementary school site. The engravings are executed by hammering.
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Figures: |
total number 67
Maps, textile, anthropomorphs, Sun God, animals, ploughing scenes, daggers.
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Chronology: |
Palaeolithic
Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic
Neolithic
Copper Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Roman
Middle Age
Modern
Unknown
Final Neolithic - Copper Age (style II-III A 1-2; 3700-2200 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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Conservation |
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Status: |
Public
Private
Park
Classified site
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Risk: |
There are problem of overlapped materials (colours for enlightening) and esfoliations with cracks. |
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
Mediocre
Bad
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Intervention: |
The rock has been coloured to enlighten the figures. At the moment is preserved in the National Park of Naquane at Capo di Ponte (Valcamonica-BS). |
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By |
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Record n. 471 / 807 |
No commercial use is allowed. Specific © is mentioned in the captions or owned by each Author or Institution |
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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).
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