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Excavation

  • Riserva naturale delle incisioni rupestri di Ceto Cimbergo Paspardo
  • Foppe di Nadro
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    • The Italian Database is the result of a collaboration between:

      MIBAC (Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Direzione Generale per i Beni Archeologici),

      ICCD (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione) and

      AIAC (Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica).

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    Summary (English)

    • FdN – Rock 25 (BS.CETO.FOPPEDINADRO.025)
      The surface known as r. 25 outcrops on the west of the main visitors’ route through the Foppe di Nadro Park, between r. 48 (of which it is the natural continuation) and the fork, immediately north, where pathways branch-off towards Naquane (downhill) or towards the upper section of the park and the area of r. 27 (uphill). From the pathway, r. 25 appears as a horizontal surface with its long axis aligned N-S (sectors A-B), terminating rather brusquely towards the west with a steep, short descent interrupted to the south by the out cropping of sector C, very close to rock n. 48. In the northernmost part, the slope becomes a scarp and the surface emerges from it as a rocky spur with a long horizontal summit, half hidden by trees. The petroglyphs, made using the “martellina” technique (hammering with a pointed stone) and graffiti (“filiform”), are mainly concentrated on the horizontal portion of the surface, in sectors A and B, which are contiguous but separated by an oblique fracture.
      The surface was documented in 1980 and 1981, with the technique of neutral treatment in use at the time. After a check, it was decided that this documentation was not accurate enough for modern standards, thus the recording was carried out again.

      Sector A presented a large number of filiform engravings: circles, series of circles with a central point, lines, and bands of lines, grids, and trias constitute the almost totality of the engravings. The comparison of the actual surface with the historical photographs taken in the early 1980s shows a perceptible degradation of the surface, perhaps due to the vicinity to the pathway. The reading of the overlaps (not marked in the 1981 recording), now requires very careful attention and the fieldwork has yet to be concluded.

      Sector B presented a predominance of prehistoric and proto-historic figures made using the “martellina” technique: geometrical areas of the topographical type from the Copper Age (like those on nearby r. 48 and r. 24); then in various phases of the Iron Age, armed figures, an incomplete “Camuna rose”, animals, foot prints, and structures. Alongside these engravings are filiform petroglyphs (trias, grids, circles, lines and bands of lines) that continue in sector A and present similar problems of legibility. The recording and digital reconstruction of the petroglyphs has been completed.
      Sector C presents three areas, made using the “martellina” technique, of the topographical type from the Copper Age and a few armed figures and structures of Iron Age date.

      FdN – Rock 28 (BS.CETO.FOPPEDINADRO.028)
      Rock n. 28 is a small monotone protrusion positioned at the apex of the long rocky outcrop formed by r. 22-23, of which it is the natural continuation, although separated by a deep fracture. Situated on private property, although mentioned in publications, and documented by the Monitoring project, it had never been recorded or studied. The petroglyphs are present on the sloping, almost vertical part and on the horizontal summit. They certainly continue under the earth and grass covering the uphill surface. The summit presents an area with the fractures and flaking that can be attributed to the lighting of fires (cf. on the summit of r. 24, 39, 60), delimited by large carefully-made cup marks. Topographical type areas made with the ‘martellina’ technique, scenes of ploughing, and two daggers (one attributable to the Copper Age, the other to the Bronze Age) are present. Armed figures, a deer-hunting scene, a deer being ridden, an axe with a quadrangular blade, a finely-made ox and figures of structures are also present, dating to various phases of the Iron Age.

      FdN – Roccia 56 (BS.CETO.FOPPEDINADRO.056)
      This is a small surface emerging vertically on the east side of the pathway, to the exterior of the fork in the pathway leading towards the zone of upper Foppe di Nadro. The surface is delimited at the top by an ancient containing wall that rests on the rock itself, where it bends to become almost horizontal. The surface has been cleaned of moss and photographed. It presents several figures of structures on the sub-horizontal part, characterised by flaking and detachments, while several geometrical figures are engraved on the vertical surface close to the pathway. The recording of the petroglyphs remains to be completed.

      FdN – Rock 60 (BS.CETO.FOPPEDINADRO.060)
      Work on recording the extensive surface of rock n. 60 has been ongoing since 2013. With respect to the nucleus of sectors A-D, sector E is situated to the south-west, by the side of the pathway and beyond a large area of bare rock on which there are no engravings. A short inscription in Latin is present, perhaps a name, made up of seven letters arranged in two lines. The inscription, the second in Latin from the Foppe di Nadro area, was already known and published but had not been recorded and inserted into the scientific archive.

    • Paolo Medici- Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici 
    • Cristina Gastaldi- Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici 
    • Silvana Gavaldo– Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici 

    Director

    • Emmanuel Anati- Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici

    Team

    • Tiziana Cittadini- CCSP
    • Paolo Medici- CCSP
    • Paolo Medici - Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici
    • Elena Balduzzi, Marta Bassi, Simona Bruno, Alessandro Cerri, Barbara Chiapello, Lena Eriksson, Robert Kareliusson, Giulia Mazzetti, Antanas Melinis

    Research Body

    • Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici

    Funding Body

    • Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici

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