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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. |
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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Record n. 488 / 807 |
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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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