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Rock ArtSite Name: Velmaio
Country: Italy
NOTE: This site is 6.68 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Lombardia Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Varese  Nearest Village: Velmaio near Arcisate
Latitude: 45.830610N  Longitude: 8.880160E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 4 Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
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 4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
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Velmaio
Velmaio submitted by mpwpir : Site in Velmaio Lombardia Italy-The Menhir (Vote or comment on this photo)
Megalith with "rock art", located on the valley floor of the Bevera River. It sits at an altitude of 319 metres above sea level, rises to about 2 meters in height above the surrounding ground and is enclosed by a ring of markedly smaller stones (20 to 40 cm in diameter) at a distance by 50 to 100 cm from its base.

The described Megalith it is located in Velmaio, near Arcisate (The Bevera Valley, Varese Province, North Western Lombardy). The town, like the whole Ceresio Valley, is a part of the "Regio Insubrica" a Cross-Border Community with the status of Euro region, founded in 1995, which also includes the neighboring Canton Ticino (TI), a Republic of the Helvetic Confederation (CH).

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Note: A possible megalith in Velmaio, near Arcisate (Varese – Western Lombardy, Italy)
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Velmaio
Velmaio submitted by mpwpir : Site in Velmaio Lombardia Italy-The Menhir with engravings and cupmarks (Vote or comment on this photo)

Velmaio
Velmaio submitted by mpwpir : Site in Velmaio Lombardia Italy-The Menhir with engravings (Vote or comment on this photo)

Velmaio
Velmaio submitted by mpwpir : Site in Velmaio Lombardia Italy- A stones that surround the Menhir (Vote or comment on this photo)

Velmaio
Velmaio submitted by mpwpir : Site in Velmaio Lombardia Italy-The Menhir with engravings and cupmarks (Vote or comment on this photo)

Velmaio
Velmaio submitted by mpwpir : Site in Velmaio Lombardia Italy-The Menhir with engravings

Velmaio
Velmaio submitted by mpwpir

Velmaio
Velmaio submitted by mpwpir : Site in Velmaio Lombardia Italy-The Menhir

Velmaio
Velmaio submitted by mpwpir : Site in Lombardia Italy

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A possible megalith in Velmaio, near Arcisate (Varese – Western Lombardy, Italy) by mpwpir on Friday, 28 October 2016
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A POSSIBLE MEGALITH IN VELMAIO NEAR ARCISATE - THE BEVERA VALLEY
(VARESE – WESTERN LOMBARDY, ITALY)
Authors: Alfredo Pirondini *, Gian Paolo Bocca *, Filippo Pirondini *, Cecilia Pirondini *, Cesarina Villa *.
*Il Finalese: Studi e Ricerche
http://ilfinalese.blogspot.it

Summary
The Authors describe the Monolith, its orientation that, on the basis of archaeoastronomical observations and proximity to other possible megalithic sites, could indicate a pre and / or protohistorical attendance of this site.
An analysis of the potential research perspectives concludes this paper.

Introduction
The described formation (Photo 1) it is located in Velmaio, near Arcisate (Varese Province, North Western Lombardy ). The town, like the whole Ceresio Valley, is a part of the "Regio Insubrica" a Cross-Border Community with the status of Euro region, founded in 1995, which also includes the neighboring Canton Ticino (TI), a Republic of the Helvetic Confederation (CH).
The megalith, located on the valley floor of the Bevera River (Lat .: 45.830610 ° N;
Long .: 8.880160 ° E; Alt .: 319 m asl), rises to about 2 meters in height above the surrounding ground (Photo 2) and is enclosed by a ring of markedly smaller stones (20 to 40 cm in diameter) at a distance by 50 to 100 cm from its base (36).

Description
The Megalith, looks like a block of stone with unique characteristics, very different from the surrounding rocks of the same geographic location that appear schist (with frequent presence of oil shale) and dolomitic limestone, predominantly formed in the Triassic and Jurassic Periods.
The described rock appears, in fact, formed by angular fragments of a diameter greater than 2 mm. The space between them is filled by smaller fragments and by a "mineral cement" (Photo 3) which binds the whole as in the conglomerates (40).

It has a shape of a truncated triangular pyramid with steep faces. The cross section is, i.e., roughly triangular with rounded vertices. The base of this triangle is located to the East. The bisection is in East-West direction and here the vertex appears more acute throughout its height.

From a personal reconnaissance of August 10, 2013, it was observed the decline of the New Moon right towards the West (azimuth: 263.8°) at around 09:57 p.m., following the direction of the line segment bisector. This would not seem random orientation, because of the size of this megalithic formation it can, that has the characteristics of a oriented Menhir, well planted with its larger base in the ground in the manner of a “Baetylus” (6), (7), (8), (9 ), (10).
In subsequent daytime reconnaissance, was evident that the entire exposed surface was covered with petroglyphs that appear to represent filiforms and fern leaves patterns. There are also branched drawings that could symbolize deer antlers and bucrania (Photo 4), (Photo 5).

In addition to these rock engravings, there are cruciforms (Photo 6) and, at the top, on the minor base of this truncated pyramid there is a surface, easily reachable by the observer, which presents, in addition to the before mentioned types of petroglyphs (38 ), (39), also gutters, rhomboid basins (with major axis oriented towards East-West) and cupmarks (Photo 7), typical of the megalithic altars (11), also described by our study group in other sites of Ceresio Valley (30) and near Finale Ligure (21), (22), (23), (24), (25), (26), (27), (28), (29), (30), ( 31), (32), (33), (34).

The base of the megalith is surrounded by smaller stones of local origin, irregular dolomitic limestone (from 20 to 40 cm in diameter), to a variable distance (50 to 100 cm) from the base of the Monolith, partially buried and hidden by the infesting weeds (1), (36). Such stones not appear to have the function to support this big rock, but rather to delimit the area of this likely Menhir (Photo 8).



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