The mining settlement situated at high altitude at Cevo-Dos del Curù constitutes a notable find. It lies at 2000 m a.s.l. in the Val Savoire, one of the mountain valleys of the Valle Camonica.

Here, the casual find in 2000 of a “camuna” inscription, of notable length and complexity, along the military road in the zone which crosses an area of modern chalcopyrite and siderite mines, led to the beginning of investigations on the site. The excavation revealed the presence of a large mining village dating to the 6th-5th century B.C., with long rectangular houses conserved to a standing height of 1-1.50 m.

The earliest houses, with an elongated rectangular plan, date to the mid Iron Age, as attested by the excavation of one such house with paved floor (house D). In the cracks between the paving stones a brooch with wide thin bow and pin without button of the S. Giacomo type (according to the typology of von Eles Masi, 1986) and a drinking cup of the Ciaslir di Monte Ozol type were found. These artefacts help to date the house to between the end of the 6th and first half of the 5th century B.C., a period characterised in this area by the presence of “Rhaetic” cultural elements of the Breno-Dos de l’Arca facies, part of the more extensive Fritzens-Sanzeno group.

Inside the structure anvils, smoothing implements and mallets were found, attesting metalworking activity linked to mining: some of the numerous mines that are present in the area are certainly of prehistoric origin. Moreover, in the collapse levels several stones with “camuna” inscriptions were found. All around the settlement of Dos Curù there are boulders incised with cup marks, near the houses and inside them. Their relationship with the stratigraphic context examined dates them to the mid Iron Age.