Is Concias
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The small, excellently preserved giant grave of Is Concias is located on Monte Nicola Bove near Quartucciu , about 100 m in front of the chapel "Santu Perdu'e Paradisu" ( German "Saint Peter in Paradise" ) in the east of the metropolitan city of Cagliari in Sardinia . The buildings called “Tumbas de los zigantes” and ( Italian Tombe dei Giganti - plur.) In Sardu are the largest prenuraghic cult structures in Sardinia and are among the latest megalithic structures in Europe . The 321 known giant tombs are monuments of the Bronze Age Bonnanaro culture (2,200-1,600 BC), which is the precursor to the Nuragic culture .
Type sequence
Structurally, giant tombs appear in two variants. The systems with portal steles and exedra are the older type. In later systems, the exedra consists of a square facade, significantly raised in the middle, made of processed ( Italian tipo dolmenico - dolmen type) and layered stone blocks instead of monolithic steles .
description
The giant grave of Is Concias is a system of the type with a square facade. The complex from the 14th or 13th century BC BC is typical for the late phase (e.g. Madau , Muraguada , Sa Domu 'e s'Orcu or Tamuli ). The exedra of Is Concias is about 10.0 m wide and made of megalithic dry stone masonry . On the right side of the exedra are three round stone-framed “ritual fireplaces”. Links of access is a small Baitylos (ital. Betilo ). The low-lying entrance leads into the intact, eight-meter-long, 1.3-meter-wide chamber that narrows at the top through a cantilever vault and is 1.7-meter-high in the middle. It still seems to be covered with the original mound. It is 11.6 m long and 4.5 m wide.
literature
- Rainer Pauli: Sardinia. History culture landscape. Voyages of discovery on one of the most beautiful islands in the Mediterranean . 7th edition. DuMont, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-7701-1368-3 , p. 340
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Coordinates: 39 ° 15 ′ 27 ″ N , 9 ° 21 ′ 35 ″ E