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  • Cima Varengo
  • Montemale di Cuneo
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  • Italy
  • Piedmont
  • Province of Cuneo
  • Montemale di Cuneo

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Monuments

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Chronology

  • 1000 BC - 600 BC

Season

    • 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.

Bibliography

    • M. Venturino Gambari, S. Marchiaro, F. Rubat Borel, P. Terenzi, 2008, Montemale di Cuneo, loc. Cima Varengo. Insediamento dell’età del Bronzo finale - prima età del Ferro, in “Quaderni della Soprintendenza Archeologica del Piemonte”, 23: 213-215.