Briaglia necropolis
The necropolis of Briaglia is located on a hill northeast of the center of the Italian municipality of Briaglia in the province of Cuneo in Piedmont . Briaglia is part of the Valli Monregalesi mountain community . The necropolis consists of a dolmen , numerous menhirs , statue menhirs and stones with petroglyphs depicting images of people and animals. The discovery of the 4000 year old megalithic necropolis was published in 1972 by Ettore Janigro D'Aquino.
The Briaglia dolmen is formed by a long dromos , at the end of which opens a portal that leads into a chamber dug in tuff-like material, offset to the left and painted with red ocher. The walls are covered with a layer of limestone and only in a few places can you see the ocher. On the left side of the entrance there are two recesses and side niches in the corridor. A special feature of the dolmen is the fact that the sun illuminates the floor of the chamber during the winter solstice (similar to Newgrange ). A few years after the discovery, media interest disappeared, many stones were lost and the dolmen was forgotten.
In 2004 a committee was set up to study the site, which in 2008 led to the opening of an area in which some of the menhirs were placed while others are kept in the former Brotherhood of San Giovanni.
context
The necropolis belongs to the little-known Ligurian Bagienni culture. Carlo Fedele Savio (1857–1948) assumed that the Bagienni, a Ligurian tribe attributed to the Taurines , ruled Provence in France and Piedmont . According to Janigro D'Acquino, the people, who probably came from the eastern Mediterranean, first came to Sardinia, where they founded the nuragic culture and came to Corsica and Elba . Some ended up in Tuscany, creating the Etruscan culture, while others came to the coasts of Liguria. In Liguria, the Bagenni settled north following the Tanaro River to get to Briaglia. D'Aquino is almost certain that the Celtic civilization of Central Europe came from a similar migration. This is shown in the fact that when the Celts advanced into northern Italy, there was no fighting, but rather the peoples mixed without problems, but then quickly absorbed into the Roman Empire . Because of this, this civilization was almost unknown.
Individual evidence
- ^ Carlo Fedele Savio: Rossana ossia il passato di un villaggio prealpino , Saluzzo 1937
Web links
- Museo Mondo di Pietra Briaglia with description in Italian and maps
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- The menhirs ital.
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Coordinates: 44 ° 24 '2.9 " N , 7 ° 52' 58.8" E