Bowls from Patnasa

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Cupstone rock from Patnasa
Memorial plaque dedicated to the local historian and Bishop Christian Caminada

The Patnasa bowls are located southwest of the village of Dardin in the Surselva in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland at an altitude of around 970 meters.

There are around 100 bowls and gutters on a large Verrucano rock slab that has been abraded by the glacier . The entire field extends over 10 m in length and 4.5 m in width. The bowls have a diameter of 5 to 35 cm and depths of up to 14 cm.

The name Patnasa goes back to the pre-Roman term Padnal / Pedenal / Pitino and appears in several places in the canton of Graubünden and means something like "castle, fortifications, fortified settlement". However, no traces of human settlement were found.

The rock slab of Patnasa was discovered in 1931 by the district forester Walo Burkart (1887–1952). In 2006 the plate was cleaned. It is under federal monument protection.

  • Cup stone

  • big bowl

literature

  • Greti Büchi: Megaliths in the Canton of Graubünden ; Self-published Forch 1996

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information board on site

Coordinates: 46 ° 45 '14.8 "  N , 9 ° 2' 28.1"  E ; CH1903:  722432  /  179354