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Locality: |
Sanfront, Solie |
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Piemonte |
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Monte Bracco |
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Environment & Surface |
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Altitude:
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900 m
Open-air
Shelter
Cave
Portable
Megalithic
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Geography: |
steep slope southward exposed. Chestnuts and hazel-trees wood, abandoned harvest of chestnuts and hazelnuts. |
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path, alpine hut |
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Geology: |
quartzite |
Surface: |
smooth, flat, fractured, steps |
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Dimensions:
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Length 6.60 m.
Width 4.30 m.
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
With the Pera dij Cros in Valchiusella this is one of the few engraved rocks in the western Alps showing a large number of anthropomorphic schematic figures. In this case they are quite all female figures: the breast is represented by two little cup-marks aside the bust. It is a common stylistic feature in the Bronze Age alpine rock art. Most of figures are very faint: some of them show deeper engraved parts in correspondence of the body, of the arms and the head, which probably have been re-engraved, perhaps also in recent times. The crosses and the writings show a more angled section, testifying a metallic tool execution.
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total number 119
30 schematic female figures, 1 schematic male figure, 5 little cup-marks, 3 cross-like figures, 1 modern writing (ERI), 1 boundary limit, 5 grouped little cup-marks, 8 straight segments, 65 sparse little "hole" or cup-marks.
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Chronology: |
Palaeolithic
Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic
Neolithic
Copper Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Roman
Middle Age
Modern
Unknown
The anthropomorphic figures can be compared to the ones of the remedellian phase of the Copper Age (Valcamonica, stick body and triangle position legs, 2700-2400 B.C.) or to the ones of the end of the Bronze Age (Valcamonica, so called "praying figures", with triangle position legs, 1200-900 B.C.). In a shelter near the rock some pieces of ancient Bronze Age pottery have been found.
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The rock is impressively similar to a large spring-board: the jump downside is many meters high. The same popular name "Roc" (rock) or "Bec" (beak) clearly derives from this particular. |
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Conservation |
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Status: |
Public
Private
Park
Classified site
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Risk: |
The site is poorly attended. Risks of natural consumption and desquamation. |
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
Mediocre
Bad
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Intervention: |
The rock has been completely recorded (International western Alps rock art record), traced (contact tracing and digital vectorial rendition), photographed (colour slides) under enchargement of the Archaeological Superintendence of Piedmont. |
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| Record n. 416 / 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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