Progero

Field name
Site:	Gudo [from first object]
Coordinates:	46° 10' 14.25" N, 8° 56' 26.50" E [from first object]
Objects found here:	TI·1 Gudo

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Commentary

The hamlet Progero, erstwhile a fraction of the municipality of Gudo, today of Bellinzona, is the site of an Iron-age necropolis on the northern bank of the Ticino near the influence of the Progero on the Magadino plain below Bellinzona. Found in 1909 during works on the river bed, the main part of the necropolis (306 tombs, mostly inhumation) dates to the 6^th–2^nd c. BC (Golasecca and La Tène), though ceramic fragments date from as early as the 17^th c. BC. Some tombs were marked with stone stelae, but none inscribed. In more recent times, traces of a La Tène settlement have been discovered near the necropolis. See Baserga 1911, Sormani 2007, Sormani 2012, the entry on Gudo in the Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz, and the archaeological archive of the Ufficio dei beni culturali.

Corinna Salomon