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On the ridge separating the Val Maira from the Val Grana, between 1160 and 1125 m a.s.l., excavations took place in an area already known due to illegal digging and finds made during the erection of a radio/television antenna. The excavated trenches revealed four occupation phases on the ridge, attributable to a settlement of the late Final Bronze Age and early Iron Age. Phase 1 was characterised by colluvial deposits with a yellow silty matrix in which no archaeological material was present. In phase 2, containing terraces were built formed by dry-stone walls filled with dumped earth from a nearby inhabited area that contained charcoal, faunal remains and pottery ascribable to the local Piemontese facies of the Final Bronze Age, in the form of bowls with high carinations. In phase 3, at the beginning of the early Iron Age, the structures gradually collapsed, leaving levels constituted by silty soil disturbed by root growth. Phase 4 was attested by more than one hundred illegal excavations that cut into the colluvial layers of phase 1 and the phase 3 dumps.
- Francesco Rubat Borel - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici del Piemonte e del Museo Antichità Egizie 
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- Marica Venturino Gambari - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici del Piemonte e del Museo Antichità Egizie
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