Santuari de Son Corró

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Santuari de Son Corró

The Santuari de Son Corró ('Sanctuary of Son Corró') is a prehistoric sanctuary on the Spanish Balearic island of Mallorca . It is located in the municipality of Costitx in the region ( comarca ) Pla de Mallorca . The building is the Iron Age Post Talaiotic after 550 BC. Chr. Assigned to the phase after the end of Talaiot culture (also Talayotic) in Mallorca.

location

The Santuari de Son Corró is located at about 95 meters above sea level on the southeast slope of a 107 meter high hill in the area of Son Corró , on the edge of a field about 5 meters below. The distance to the center of Costitx in the east is 1.5 kilometers, that to the center of the neighboring town of Sencelles in the west is 3.1 kilometers. The parish boundary is 730 meters west of the sanctuary, which can be reached on the MA-3121 (altitude 2.8 km) that connects Costitx with Sencelles and passes 70 meters south of the Santuaris de Son Corró . About 400 meters to the west and 500 meters to the north, the torrent Torrent de Pina , which flows north, curves around the location of the sanctuary.

description

Information sign in front of the sanctuary

The Santuari de Son Corró consists of the remains of an outer wall built as dry stone and six reconstructed columns in front of an altar area. The 84.5 m² interior of the sanctuary measures 10.30 meters in length and is 8.20 meters wide. The course of the missing side walls is indicated by rails in the ground. The reconstruction of the central columns in the 1990s from the 13  column drums found was controversial. Two column drums were placed on top of each other, the 13th is in the chancel. The construction of the sanctuary is in the period from the 4th to the 2nd century BC. Dated.

Bulls from Costitx

At the beginning of May 1895, while removing stones at the edge of a field at Finca Son Corró , workers discovered two bronze bulls' heads, in Catalan Caps de Bou . A third bull's head was later found. The archaeologists Bartomeu Ferrà i Perelló, co-founder of the Societat Arqueològica Lul·liana in 1880 , and Gabriel Llabrés i Quintana then examined the site, which turned out to be a post-Talaiotic sanctuary.

Southeast view of the sanctuary

According to the law of the time, the finds belonged to Joan Vallespir i Serra, the owner of the finca where the bulls' heads were discovered. The state had the right to purchase found objects at a “fair price”. Vallespir estimated the value of the three Caps de Bou at 3,500 pesetas . Ferrà and Llabrés initially tried to acquire the finds for the provincial government of Mallorca. Since the price asked for it was set too high, the two archaeologists brokered the acquisition by the Spanish government in order to prevent it from being sold abroad. On November 30, 1895, the Costitx bulls (Bous de Costitx) came to the National Archaeological Museum of Madrid . In the meantime, the municipality of Costitx is urging a return of the bulls' heads and an exhibition in the Museu de Mallorca , at least in the summer months.

In the course of a renewed excavation of the archaeological site and subsequent restoration of the sanctuary under the direction of Guillem Rosselló i Bordoy , the Costitx community acquired a narrow strip of the property on which the Santuari de Son Corró is located. Before the restoration, the 13 column drums were unevenly distributed over the area of ​​the site, the greater part of them in the eastern area. There are different views on the arrangement of the column drums. In contrast to the interpretation of a liturgical installation, Rosselló took the view that it should be understood as an architectural part of a former roofing of the sanctuary. Accordingly, during the restoration, he placed two drums on top of each other, connected by a metal pin in the middle. In 2010 the sanctuary was cleaned and rehabilitated under the direction of archaeologists Magdalena Serra and David Javaloyas.

  • Views of the sanctuary

  • Southwest side

  • Altar area

  • East view

  • Wall remains

literature

  • David Javaloyas Molina, Magdalena Sastre Morro, Llorenç Oliver Servera, Emmanuelle Gloaguen Murias: Memòria tècnica de la neteja i adequació del jaciment de Son Corró . Consell de Mallorca, Palma 2010, ISBN 978-84-92603-43-5 (Catalan, digitized [accessed July 12, 2017]).
  • David Javaloyas Molina, Magdalena Sastre Morro, Llorenç Oliver Servera, Emmanuelle Gloaguen Murias: Arqueologia i públic a Mallorca, una trista història. Reflections a partir d'una intervenció a Son Corró . In: Mateu Riera Rullán (ed.): IV Journades d'Arqueologia de les Illes Balears . Vessants, Eivissa (Ibiza Town) 2012, ISBN 978-84-937994-3-4 , pp. 241–248 (Catalan, digitized / PDF [accessed July 12, 2017]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Senderisme a Mallorca. Consell de Mallorca, accessed on July 12, 2017 (interactive map).
  2. ^ A b David Javaloyas Molina, Magdalena Sastre Morro, Llorenç Oliver Servera, Emmanuelle Gloaguen Murias: Memòria tècnica de la neteja i adequació del jaciment de Son Corró . Consell de Mallorca, Palma 2010, ISBN 978-84-92603-43-5 , pp. 5 (Catalan, digitized [accessed July 12, 2017]).
  3. ^ Sanctuary Santuari talaiòtic de Son Corró. Mancomunitat Pla de Mallorca, accessed July 12, 2017 .
  4. ^ David Javaloyas Molina, Magdalena Sastre Morro, Llorenç Oliver Servera, Emmanuelle Gloaguen Murias: Memòria tècnica de la neteja i adequació del jaciment de Son Corró . Consell de Mallorca, Palma 2010, ISBN 978-84-92603-43-5 , pp. 6 (Catalan, digitized [accessed July 12, 2017]).
  5. ^ Joan Frau: Bous de Costitx, los iconos más añorados. Diario de Mallorca, May 1, 2015, accessed July 12, 2017 (Spanish).
  6. ↑ a b Maria Nadal: Son Corró llueix. dBalears, January 29, 2011, accessed July 12, 2017 (Catalan).

Web links

Commons : Santuari de Son Corró  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 39 ° 39 '  N , 2 ° 56'  E