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21 July 2021 An 8-year-old boy finds three prehistoric artifacts and delivers them to the Carabinieri for the Protection of Cultural Heritage: it happened over the weekend in L'Aquila, during an excursion on the Campo Felice plain in the province of L'Aquila, where the little Gabriele, together with his family, found three unusually shaped stones near a mole's lair. The parents, to whom the son had shown the strange discovery, turned to the Carabinieri of the Nucleo for the Protection of the Cultural Heritage of L'Aquila, established in March this year, and to the Superintendence of Archeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the City of 'Aquila and the Municipalities of the Crater.
As a sign of recognition, the military informs, Gabriele was awarded a commendation for the discovery of prehistoric material. The three "strange stones", according to the investigations by the officials of the Ministry of Culture, would seem "similar to lithic artifacts, presumably from the prehistoric age, in flint and limestone, the latter with traces of numerous marine fossils": further insights scientific will allow to define the characteristics, the chronology and the eventual cultural context of belonging.
The discovery is added to archival information that generically indicated in the Casamaina locality, in the municipality of Lucoli (L'Aquila), finds of archaeological material. "The fortuitous discovery of cultural assets, or those things that have an artistic, historical, archaeological or ethno-anthropological interest, and the subsequent report within 24 hours to the Superintendent or the Mayor or the Public Security Authority, represents a custom that is in recent years, in Italy, taking root among the population, due to a growing public sensitivity on the protection of cultural heritage - concludes the note from the carabinieri.