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<< Text Pages >> Sass di Cent Cros - Rock Art in Switzerland in Tessin

Submitted by AlexHunger on Saturday, 18 February 2006  Page Views: 2913

Rock ArtSite Name: Sass di Cent Cros
Country: Switzerland
NOTE: This site is 1.544 km away from the location you searched for.

Canton: Tessin Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Lugano  Nearest Village: Contra
Latitude: 46.195400N  Longitude: 8.826590E
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:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
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
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
no data

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Cuphole stone in Tessin


Stone with about 200 crosses carved over cup holes. Probably old sacred stone that was heavily christianised.
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Re: Sass di Cent Cros by Megalithic89 on Thursday, 23 March 2023
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Further information on this stone, taken from the Swiss Inventory of Stone Monuments http://www.ssdi.ch, in German, with photos:
Link to SSDI Object No. 6598.01

Lat/Long is fine (Accuracy 5)
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