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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Vira Gambarogno Lepontische Stele
Country: Switzerland Canton: Tessin Type: Sculptured Stone
Nearest Town: Locarno Nearest Village: Vira Gambarogno
Latitude: 46.141660N Longitude: 8.839950E
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4	Almost Perfect
3	Reasonable but with some damage
2	Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1	Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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-1	Completely destroyed

3 Ambience:

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no data Access:

5	Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4	Short walk on a footpath
3	Requiring a bit more of a walk
2	A long walk
1	In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5	co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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3	co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2	co-ordinates of the nearest village
1	co-ordinates of the nearest town
0	no data

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**Vira Gambarogno Lepontische Stele** submitted by Megalithic89 : Site in Tessin Switzerland Photo taken June 2022, with permission of Archaeological Museum of Castello di Montebello. The reflections are unavoidable. (Vote or comment on this photo)

A stele found in 1917 at Vira Gambarogno, Campaccio. It has an inscription in Lepontic characters: TEROMVI.KVALVI (teromui kualui). Such writings are read from right to left. It was created during Iron Age, 5th to 4th Century BC and is now damaged. On display in the Archaeology Museum “Castello di Montebello” at Bellinzona.

The Landesmuseum in Zurich shows a replica.

Sources of Information:
1) Swiss Inventory of Archaeological Stones, www.ssdi.ch.
Link to SSDI Object No. 6574.01
Written in German.
2) Jahresbericht Schweiz. Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte, JbSGU, Band 10, 1917, S. 61
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