Nuraghe Armungia
The Nuraghe Armungia is a simple, frustoconical Tholos or Monoturmnuraghe ( Italian "Monotorre" ) of around 12.0 m in diameter, built from regular rows of worked limestone blocks . The nuraghe is in the northeast of Armungia ( Sardinian Armùnja ) in the province of Sud Sardegna in Sardinia . Nuraghi are prehistoric towers of the Bonnanaro culture (2200–1600 BC) and the subsequent nuragic culture (around 1600–400 BC) in Sardinia.
The outer walls of the nuraghe are preserved up to a height of about 10.0 m in 22 rows. The approximately 1.2 m high entrance leads into an approximately 4.0 m long, high corridor with side niches, which widens from approximately 1.2 m wide at the entrance to 1.6 m. The passage leads into the central chamber, about 5.4 m in diameter. There are two niches on the side of the wall opposite. The right one is trapezoidal. Its width of 1.9 m decreases to 1.4 m; the height is 2.95 m. The left, paved niche is elliptical 1.45 × 1.90 m and 2.75 m high and shields a Byzantine cistern (6th to 7th century AD). On the wall next to the entrance, about 3.0 m above the ground, there is access to a staircase with 17 steps, which is illuminated through a small window opening. Its pointed entrance is 0.95 m wide and 2.1 m high.
Since no stratigraphic excavations have been made, there is no reliable data on the dating of the monument, which was created in the Bronze Age .
Outside the village is the slightly smaller Nuraghe Scandariu.
See also
literature
- Giovanni Lilliu: I nuraghi. Torri preistoriche della Sardegna. La Zattera, Cagliari 1962.
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Coordinates: 39 ° 31 '20.7 " N , 9 ° 23' 1.5" E