Hypogeum of Torre del Ram

Entrance to the hypogeum of Torre del Ram

40.005277777778 3.8091666666667Coordinates: 40 ° 0 ′ 19 ″ N , 3 ° 48 ′ 33 ″ E

The hypogeum of Torre del Ram is located northwest of Ciutadella on the Balearic island of Menorca . It is located in the northeast of the village of Torre del Ram in a residential area at the intersection of Avenida Tramuntana and Calle Gregal.

description

The hypogeum dates from the pre-Talayotic period (1600–1400 BC) and is an artificial cave (Cueva).

It has a 2.6 m long stair-like entrance with a short 1.55 m wide anteroom. The access is protected at the top by a kind of dome made of large natural stones. The chamber, cut into the rock, is 8.8 m long, 2.5 m wide and 1.95 m high. It is rectangular and has a trapezoidal cross-section. Your ceiling is flat. A low bench runs all the way along the walls, including the apse, which is only drawn in at the top . Apart from rock carvings of an unknown date, showing three sailing ships and other unidentified figures, no finds have been made.

The hypogeum of Torre del Ram is protected as an archaeological monument ( Monument arqueològic ). The current registration number at the Spanish Ministry of Culture is RI-55-0008552. It is one of the 32 archaeological sites that Spain officially proposed on January 14, 2016 as " Talayotic Culture of Menorca " for inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage List . The World Heritage Committee postponed the application at its 41st meeting in July 2017 and requested improvements.

literature

Mark Patton: Islands in Time - Island Sociogeography and Mediterranean Prehistory . Routledge Chapman & Hall 1996, ISBN 978-0-415-12659-5 (English)
Victor M. Guerrero Ayuso: Nautas beleáricos durante la Prehistoria (parte 2): De la iconografía naval a las fuentes históricas ( Memento of May 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: Pyrenae . Volume 37, No. 2, 2006, pp. 7-45. (PDF; 1.23 MB)

Web links

Torre del Ram hypogeum on the Menorca Talayótica website

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Torre del Ram hypogeum on the Menorca Talayótica website, accessed on April 8, 2015.
^ Antoni Nicolau Martí, Elena Sintes Olives, Ricard Pla Boada, Albert Àlvarez Marsal: Talayotic Minorca . The prehistory of the island. Triangle Books, Sant Lluís 2015, ISBN 978-84-8478-640-5 , pp. 305 (English).
↑ Ferran Lagarda i Mata: Torre del Ram 1 on the website www.arqueoguia.com (English), accessed on October 24, 2016.
↑ Talayotic Culture of Minorca , on the Spanish tentative list at UNESCO (English), accessed on October 28, 2017.
↑ World Heritage Committee (Ed.): List of nominations received by February 1, 2016 and for examination by the World Heritage Committee at its 41st session (2017) . (English, unesco.org [PDF; 427 kB ]).
↑ World Heritage Committee (Ed.): Decisions adopted during the 41st session of the World Heritage Committee (Krakow, 2017) . (English, unesco.org [PDF; 4.5 MB ]).

[MT-1] Torre del Ram hypogeum on the Menorca Talayótica website, accessed on April 8, 2015.

[2] Antoni Nicolau Martí, Elena Sintes Olives, Ricard Pla Boada, Albert Àlvarez Marsal: Talayotic Minorca . The prehistory of the island. Triangle Books, Sant Lluís 2015, ISBN 978-84-8478-640-5 , pp. 305 (English).

[Lagarda_i_Mata_Taulas-3] Ferran Lagarda i Mata: Torre del Ram 1 on the website www.arqueoguia.com (English), accessed on October 24, 2016.

[4] Talayotic Culture of Minorca , on the Spanish tentative list at UNESCO (English), accessed on October 28, 2017.

[5] World Heritage Committee (Ed.): List of nominations received by February 1, 2016 and for examination by the World Heritage Committee at its 41st session (2017) . (English, unesco.org [PDF; 427 kB ]).

[6] World Heritage Committee (Ed.): Decisions adopted during the 41st session of the World Heritage Committee (Krakow, 2017) . (English, unesco.org [PDF; 4.5 MB ]).