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Locality: |
Colma di Craveggia, Ciudčnt |
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Piemonte |
Area: |
Val Vigezzo |
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Environment & Surface |
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Altitude:
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1730 m
Open-air
Shelter
Cave
Portable
Megalithic
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Geography: |
Alpine pasture, southward exposed slope, stone-walls houses hamlet, wood of larches below |
Proximity: |
path, village |
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Geology: |
Micaschist, quartz veins |
Surface: |
Rough, convex, fractures, steps, from 15° to 35° of inclination, patina, grey and greens lichens |
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Dimensions:
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Length 2.57 m.
Width 1.98 m.
Depth 0.30 m.
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
Pseudo-rectangular slab with concentration of cup-marks and channels. Cup-marks have an average diameter of 8 cm, with a maximum of 14. Deepness form 2 to 7 cm. Sections are generally oval, but in many cases conic, thus indicating a metal tool execution.
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Figures: |
total number 128
128 cup marks and web of 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 such a deep and vertical- wall engraving. 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.
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Notes: |
The area show a great diffusion of cup-marked stones. The popular name, Ses 'd la Lesna, means "the rocks of the lightning", like if the engravings were made by the lightning. This popular name could testify some kind of remain of an ancient cult of the mountain tops. Educational activities have been conducted with some middle school classes of the Valley: online works at http://members.xoom.it/scuolaonline. |
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Conservation |
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Status: |
Public
Private
Park
Classified site
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Risk: |
The rock is inside the hamlet, in contact with the external wall of a stone-wall mountain house, clearly built after the rock was engraved. The house has been already restored with no damage to the rock. |
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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 Val Vigezzo Mountain Community. A nature-culture path has been established, with 7 points marked by panels. One of these points is devoted this rock, to show data, info and explications. |
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By |
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| Record n. 439 / 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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