Talaiot del Puig Figuer
| Talaiot del Puig Figuer | |||
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 East side of the Talaiots del Puig Figuer |
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Location in Mallorca |
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| Coordinates | 39 ° 44 '3.8 " N , 3 ° 20' 10.7" E | ||
| place | Artà , Balearic Islands , Spain | ||
| Emergence | after 850 BC Chr. | ||
The Talaiot del Puig Figuer is a prehistoric tower on the Spanish Balearic island of Mallorca . It is located in the municipality of Artà in the region ( Comarca ) Llevant on the Puig Figuer , a mountain above the S'Alqueria Vella and Son Morei estates . The talaiot (from the Catalan word talaia for "observation and watchtower"), built on a circular plan , has been preserved in the lower part. The building is attributed to the Bronze Age Talaiot culture (also Talayot culture), which Mallorca from 1300 to 123 BC. BC coined.
location
The Talaiot del Puig Figuer is located at about 290 meters above sea level on the Puig Figuer (' Fig Mountain '), about 150 meters northeast of the 300 meter high summit of the mountain. The Puig Figuer forms the border between the estates of S'Alqueria Vella in the northeast and Son Morei in the southwest, with the Talaiotic tower still belonging to S'Alqueria Vella ('the old farmhouse'). It is accessible from the parking lot in front of the buildings of the estate on a 515-meter-long signposted path across the surface of Plana de Can Ross and pass Coll de sa Barrereta leads.
S'Alqueria Vella is a public estate in the municipality of Artà, which forms part of the Parc natural de la península de Llevant . The nature park covers large parts of the northern municipal area. Several signposted hiking trails lead through it. Route 11 (Itinerari del Puig Figuer) to Talaiot del Puig Figuer is located in the very south of the nature park. The MA-3333 road runs between the small town of Artà and the Ermita de Betlem , a hermitage in the mountains, about 350 meters southwest of the mountain peak of the Puig Figuer . The access to the S'Alqueria Vella estate starts from the road . The estate including the location of the Talaiots is located in the mountains of Artà ( Serra Artana or Massís d'Artà ), part of the eastern mountain range of Mallorca, the Serres de Llevant .
description
Among the towers of the Talaiotic culture, a distinction is made between square and round structures (Catalan talaiot square and talaiot circular ). In terms of its layout, the Talaiot del Puig Figuer is a round tower, the interior of which, however, does not have a perfectly circular floor plan. The internal dimensions vary between 3.85 and 4.35 meters, with the smaller dimension extending between the 0.80 meter wide opening on the south side and the opposite northern inner wall. The purpose of the opening is unknown; generally speaking, this type of tower construction assumes access to the interior.
The Talaiot is built using dry stone masonry , which means that the stone blocks are stacked on top of one another without the use of connecting material. The irregular stones of the walls are of different sizes and not set in horizontal rows. The wall thickness is around 1.20 meters at the narrowest point and 2.40 meters at the widest. While larger stones are placed on top of each other on the outside and inside, there is small-scale filling material in the core of the wall. On some sides of the talaiot, a wall reinforcement up to 2.90 meters can also be seen, which seems to have been added later. A further reinforcement on the southwest side can be anticipated from the remains of the foundation.
The original height of the talaiot is assumed to be around four meters; the upper floor is said to have been accessible via a spiral ramp. In the middle of the interior there is a stone 0.50 meters wide and 0.80 meters long in the floor, which, as with other talaiots, possibly supported a column of stones placed on top of one another as a support for a roof. Such middle stone pillars are preserved in the talaiot of the prehistoric village of S'Hospitalet Vell as well as in the round talaiot of the talaiotic settlement of Sa Canova . To the south-east of the Talaiot del Puig Figuer , square and round secondary structures of piled stones between mastic bushes , dwarf palms and dissgras extend like terraces down to the level of Son Morei Nou on the slope of the mountain . The Talaiotic period from around 850 BC is used as the period of use for the structures. Adopted until the Roman period of the 1st century AD.
The "fortified hill" (Colina Fortificada / Turó fortificat) with the Talaiot del Puig Figuer has been registered as an archaeological monument (Monument arqueològic) since 1966 under the number RI-51-0001762 . On the Puig Genet , about 600 meters away , the neighboring 340 meter high mountain in the northeast, there are two platforms and the remains of a rectangular building, which are also attributed to the time of the Talaiot culture. A connection is assumed between the prehistoric buildings of both mountains.
- Detailed views of the talaiot
Southwest wall
Southern opening
Center stone in the interior
Eastern wall
literature
- Magdalena Sastre, David Javaloyas, Emmanuelle Gloaguen: Primeres Actuacions al Jaciment Arqueològic del Puig Figuer (Artà) . In: Mateu Riera Rullan, Jaume Cardell Perelló (ed.): Jornades d'Arqueologia de les Illes Balears . Edicions Documenta Balear, Palma 2013, ISBN 978-84-15432-76-0 , pp. 333–339 (Catalan, digitized [PDF; 6.5 MB ; accessed on August 2, 2016]).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Itinerari 11: Puig Figuer. El jaciment del Puig Figuer. parcnaturaldellevant.blogspot.de, January 1, 2009, accessed on July 11, 2012 (Catalan).
- ↑ Lista del Ministerio del Interior. WML files. wmflabs.org, accessed July 11, 2012 .
