Bedolina Map

It is known as one of the most ancient topographic maps,[1] interpreted as a depiction of cultivated plots, mountain paths and villages.

The locality of Bedolina pertains to the Capo di Ponte municipality (BS-I), near the hamlet of Pescarzo.

The area is included in the Seradina-Bedolina Archaeologic park, lying on a prominent terrace on the right slope of the Camonica valley, at an altitude of 530 m above the sea level.

The rock, a flat surface of Permian sandstone (Verrucano of Lombardy) polished by the Pleistocene glacier, is 9 m long and 4 m wide.

A total number of 109 figures[2] were carved during the late Bronze Age and the Iron Age (1000-200 BC), mainly the so-called topographic patterns[3] (dotted squares and zigzagging "paths"), warriors, animals, wooden huts, cup-marks and a Camunnian Rose.