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The Bagnolo steles are two stone boulders found in Ceresolo-Bagnolo, 
In 1972, Bagnolo 2 was discovered, a similar stele with 16 engravings, showing the same daggers and axes, and a Sun, as well as a figure of a dog, and a ploughman with a team of two oxen, and patterns interpreted as necklaces and pendants. 
Fragments of other engraving were found in nearby Ossimo and Borno.
From the style of the daggers depicted, the engravings have been dated to the Italian
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commune, Brescia
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province, Lombardia
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, Northern Italy
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, at the base of Monte Mignone, at an altitude of ca. 700 m. Bagnolo 1 was discovered in 1963, bearing depictions of 14 items, engraved by hammering. Recognizable are drawings of a Sun
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, an axe
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and several dagger
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s of the "Remedello
Remedello (Brescian: ) is a ''comune'' in the Italian province of Brescia, in Lombardy
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" type, a belt and an ibex
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In 1972, Bagnolo 2 was discovered, a similar stele with 16 engravings, showing the same daggers and axes, and a Sun, as well as a figure of a dog, and a ploughman with a team of two oxen, and patterns interpreted as necklaces and pendants.
Fragments of other engraving were found in nearby Ossimo and Borno.
From the style of the daggers depicted, the engravings have been dated to the Italian Chalcolithic
The Copper Age, also called the Chalcolithic (; from grc-gre, χαλκός ''khalkós'', "copper" and ''líthos'', "stone") or (A)eneolithic (from Latin '' aeneus'' "of copper"), is an archaeological period characterized by regular ...
, early to mid 3rd millennium BC, probably predating the presence of Indo-Europeans on the peninsula.
See also
*Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
The rock drawings in Valcamonica (Camonica Valley) are located in the Province of Brescia, Italy, and constitute the largest collections of prehistoric petroglyphs in the world. The collection was recognized by UNESCO in 1979 and was Italy's f ...
*Petroglyph
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*Lagundo stele
Algund (; it, Lagundo ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about northwest of Bolzano.
Geography
As of 31 December 2015, it had a population of 5,029 and an area of .All demographics and other statistics: I ...
*Ossimo stele
Ossimo ( Camunian: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Brescia, Lombardy, northern Italy. It is part of Val Camonica, and is divided into two centers: Ossimo Superiore and Ossimo Inferiore.
It can be reached by the provincial road 5, t ...
* Stone stelae of the Ukraine
External links
*http://www.zerla.it/stele/storia3.shtml *https://web.archive.org/web/20050125164453/http://europreart.net/cgi-bin/baserun.exe?_cfg=record.cfg&_fil=code%3D%22bgnlo001%22 {{coord missing, Italy Archaeological sites in Lombardy Rock art in Europe Prehistoric art Buildings and structures in Lombardy Steles