Summary (English)
Foppe di Nadro: rocks 24 and 60
These rocks are adjacent, only separated by the visitors’ pathway; morphologically, the summit of rock 24 is the continuation of the sloped slab which constitutes sector B of rock 60.
Uphill, the two surfaces are delimited by the gravel road linking Foppe di Nardo and Naquane that departs from a large meadow and winds towards the north passing other engraved surfaces.Rock 24
Humped surface (154.369 m2) that follows the slope of the hillside, in a good state of preservation; it is equipped with a wooden walkway and information panel.
Morphologically it is divided into four parts:
Sect. A, the humped summit; Sect. B, the lower part delimited by a deep glacial gutter, today covered by the walkway; Sect. C, downhill from the walkway and towards the north this sector is level and densely engraved with figures.
The last sector is formed by a slab extending below a pronounced step. It has a fairly regular slope, the surface only slightly more uneven towards the upper part and tending towards horizontal lower down. This part has been divided into two adjacent sectors, D and E, starting from the top, recorded this season.Sector D: smooth surface, in a good state of preservation, sloping downhill where it naturally continues in sector E.
The sector presents 3 dogs and a few schematic anthropomorphic figures (Bronze Age?), cup marks and other marks. In addition, there are a large number of filiform motifs: footprints, circles, trias, anthropomorphic figures with accentuated facial lineaments dating to the middle Iron Age and underlying the footprints.
Sector E: lower and western part, sloping downhill.
The engravings are rather scattered across the surface; it was engraved during the middle and late Iron Age with a carefully executed scene showing a deer hunt, a deer with a rider (cf. Naq. 57), 7 anthropomorphic figures (five of which armed), one horseman wearing an unusual headpiece, 6 footprints, 3 huts and one filiform hut, five-pointed stars, one shovel, a cross (probably later) and a few other marks. This entire sector was recorded.Rock 60
A vast surface (210.755 m2), naturally divided into sectors, half hidden by vegetation, adjacent to sector A of rock 24 to the south.Sector A: an outcropping block, modelled by short glacial channels and a deep central fracture.
The smooth lower part disappears below the vegetation. It presents an interesting Calcolithic panel with faces, two daggers, one or two zoomorphic figures (Cemmo 2 type), a schematic praying figure, an incomplete figure with open arms, and other marks.
The repertory of weapons+faces+anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures on an outcropping surface rather than on a stele is rather unusual.
Sector B: the surface has a regular slope following the hillside. It is not very well-preserved, the north part in particular, which presents porous and eroded areas. There are four schematic praying figures in spatial relationship with Sector A and the adjacent rock 24A. On the lower part there are two huts and a horse. At the extreme left is an anthropomorphic figure.
- Silvana Gavaldo - Centro Camuno Di Studi Preistorici 
Director
- Emmanuel Anati - Centro Camuno Di Studi Preistorici
Team
- Cinzia Bettineschi - Università degli Studi di Padova
- Cristina Gastaldi - Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici
- Sara Rigamonti
- Enrico Savardi
- Simonetta Boldini
- Fausto Bonomelli, Alessandro Cerri, Stefano Cerri, Francesca Fapanni, Laura Fernandez Matias, Annalisa Frosio, Martina Lunini, Ileana Neri, Nicolò Pasqualini, Nicola Pedergnana, Sara Piccinelli, Francesca Richini, Linda Tagliabue
- Liliana Fratti
Research Body
- Centro Camuno Di Studi Preistorici
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