The site of Scerì, in the territory of Ilbono, includes two domus de janas carved into erratic boulders, various rock shelters used in the third millennium B.C., during the final Neolithic period, and a nuraghe with an adjacent vast village.
From the Neolithic layers of the complex comes a small bone head representing a mother goddess; but the testimonies from the period also include figures with concentric circles, already documented in other Ogliastra sites and in Nuorese, engraved on some boulders present in the valley.
The nuraghe, of a complex type, was defended by a curtain wall and is characterized by the presence, beneath the main tower, of some natural cavities sometimes integrated by masonry structures.
Inside its tholos, a globular-bodied pot was discovered “which contained portions of copper ingot of Aegean type with the traditional shape of an oxhide, documented in many monuments of Ogliastra” (Maria Ausilia Fadda).
The many testimonies of the distant past and the evocative environment in which they are set make a visit to the complex of Scerì unmissable.
Attached: the nuraghe Scerì in photos by Andrea Mura-Nuragando Sardegna, Bibi Pinna, Gianni Sirigu, Francesca Cossu, and Marco Cocco; the homonymous domus de janas (ph. Francesca Cossu and Marco Cocco); the idol of the mother goddess.
