A cave where metal and bone artifacts, a bronze quadrangular razor, ceramic fragments, and objects have been found, suggesting that in the Bronze Age it was a place of worship where water deities were worshipped.
Being catapulted into remote ages, into mysterious environments, such as caves, where our ancestors practiced propitiatory rituals, to express feelings of submission or exaltation of natural phenomena.
Graffiti, engravings, paintings, systems by which prehistoric man sought to get in touch with the sacred, with the arcane.
The “Tomb of the Poles,” in Rota Imagna, represents a place full of fascination and enigmas.
The discovery of utensils at the large stalagmite rising at the bottom of the cave has raised multiple hypotheses and not a few questions.
Vases, bowls, bronze blades with decorations, bone pendants.
What seems certain is that the cave was used for cult practices, probably one dedicated to water.
Supporting this thesis is the abundant dripping and the presence of stalagmite flows.
The cave is one of many that can be found in Valle Imagna, one of the richest territories of karst phenomena in the province of Bergamo.
There are about 250 known ones, numerous concretionary phenomena, paleontological and archaeological findings.
The objects found in the “Grotta dei Polacchi” are preserved at the Bergamo Archaeological Museum.