Romeo

It has been kept at  Loris Jacopo Bononi’s Castle at Castiglione del Terziere ( Bagnone , MS ) and was given to the Pontremoli Museum in 2015 . Both origin and date are uncertain .

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Treschietto

This female stele statue without a head was found in 1969 in the cemetery at Treschietto ( Bagnone , MS ) . It belongs to group B and dates to the Eneolithic Age ( between 3400/3300 and 2300/2000 b.C. ) . The body is more or less rectangular and the

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Sorano III

This male stele statue without its head was discovered in 1966-67 when the apse and the cemetery of the ancient Pieve di Sorano ( Filattiera , MS ) were restored . It belongs to group B ( the top part shows the base of the neck and a distinctive workmanship

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Malgrate III

It is a female sandstone stele statue missing the head . It was in a house at Malgrate ( Vilalfranca in Lunigiana , MS) where it was used as a shelf and then , until 1968 , was kept in the public Library at Villafranca  . It belongs to group

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Betolleto

It was discovered by Rino Barbieri in 1999 in one of the walls of Pasquino Poletti’s farm at Perdetola . It comes from the ridge dividing the Serchio and the Magra basins , not far from the Sanctuary of Minucciano pass . Eneolithic Age ( middle of the IV –

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Venelia V

Discovered in the march of 2012 by Angiolino Giumelli , digging a vineyard at Castagnolo near the village of Monti , Licciana , MS . Eneolithic Age ( middle of the IV – III millennium b.C. ) .

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Malgrate V

It is a male sandstone stele statue with the head missing . It was recognized in 1968 , after having been used for years as part of the pillar of a fountain in the village of Malgrate ( VIllafranca in Lunigiana , MS ) . It is considered as of

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Filetto IX

The head of a stele statue found near Filetto (Villafranca in Lunigiana , MS) in 1961 in a wall surrounding a field . Classification and dating are uncertain . The shape of the head is semicircular and the face is almost T-shaped . The button-shaped eyes and the nose ,

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Soliera

Head and part of the body of a male stele statue . It was found at Torsana near the village of Soliera (Fivizzano , MS ) in 1979 . It belongs to group C and dates to the Iron Age , between the VIII and the VI cen. b.C. .

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Montecurto

This fragment of a male stele statue was found in 1980 in a farmyard at the village of Montecurto (Fivizzano , MS ) .  It belongs to group C ( D.175) and could date back to the Iron Age , between the VIII and the VI cen. b.C. . It

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