Ligurian Tommy Leggy
The engraved stone
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Maudagna Valley’s engraved stone
(abstract from-“Roccia Incisa in Val Maudagna (CN)“- Bulletin of Survey 1991-1992, n.7-8. by Italo Pucci and Flavio Gastaldi).
“The rock stands out on the side of a hill facing the Maudagna valley. It is located inside a wood and near Bellino House (Frabosa Sottana). The place was important for its stock-raising, exploitation of chestnut trees and has been populated by Ligurians.
The rock shows some cups connected by linear engravings that in their terminal parts come out from the surface.
It is possible to deem that the engravings are connected to the rituals of the waters cult.”
Very simple engravings made by very simple people, for a simple essential use.
I have to thank Mr.Giovanni and Mr.Sergio Piazzo
of the ARS organisation Villanova Mondovì (Cuneo). They are my great local guides to it.
Stone-traces of a foundation by the right side of the dolmen.
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A strange engraving very close to the dolmen.
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The first of two pulled down menhirs near the site.
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The remains of the ancient track that leads to the site.
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The ancient track that leads to the site
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Bassi’s dolmen.
I found it hidden in a deep forest. On the top of a small hill.
All around there are feeble traces that an “expert eye”(I’m jocking) can’t miss. Like the old track that leads to it, with its rocks alignment running on both sides.
Two big rocks (about two meters long each) on his sides looking as two pulled down menhirs. Stone traces of a foundation. And two suspect engravings.
Deversi. Sun adorer’s engrave.
An ancient engrave on an ancient site. Very close to Deversi Pietra delle Masche. Found by Professor Renzo Amedeo.
Sun adorer’s engrave
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Sun adorer’s engrave
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Sun adorer’s engrave
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Sun adorer’s engrave
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Sun adorer’s engrave (from a local newspaper).
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drawing from a local newspaper
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The Ratoira’s Lake Menhir.
A menhir in a lovely scenery. The Alps mountains and a small pretty alpine lake. A very special atmosphere...a big Thank to Mr. Sergio Piazzo who guide me to it !
The Ratoira’s Lake menhir
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The Ratoira’s Lake and, very small on the left (you hardly can see it), the menhir.
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the menhir, on the left in the distance, and the lake
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the menhir, the lake and the pass “Colle del Pas” on the background.
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offerings engrave over the “platform”.
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offerings engrave over the “platform”.
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Fertility’s cult engrave over the hill
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Menhir of Belbo river’s springs.
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Found by Professor Janigro D’Acquino. It was re-utilized by Romans as tombstone. They wrote “SEX MAIORI M:f:CAM” on it.
Nowadays it’s kept as an ornament... in a private garden.
Briaglia’s menhir with roman’s inscription
“SEX MAIORI M:F:CAM”
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Nowadays the menhir is kept as an ornament... in a private garden.
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Mindino “Chief-Wizard’s Stone”
When I held in my hands the picture of this stone, for the first time, I couldn’t believe my eyes. My friend Vanni Penone who found it years ago told me that because of the making of a new road the stone was destroyed and no more there. Happily he was wrong about it.
This kind of engravings are very rare to find (at least in Italy). I’ve seen another one only once in a book. I choose this name for it because the stylised figure reminds me of a very important person as a chief or a wizard in a tribe. It stands next to a spring. It can be found following the same muletrack that leads to Deversi Pietra delle Masche.
On its top the stone has an engraved cup to contain the offerings.
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The engraved stone in its setting
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Deversi, Li Cunni. Pietra delle Masche
An interesting engraved stone. I found it thanks to Professor Renzo Amedeo.
A sacred area, in the neighbourhood there are other engraved stones. Ligurian tribes were living here too (so not only in Liguria but also Piemonte, Lombardia and other places in north Italy).
It’s called Pietra delle Masche (Witches’ or Hags’ Stone) because legends tell of witches dancing on the stone on certain nights.