In the pages of the Unione Sarda of 24 April, there was a report on the degradation of the area surrounding the ‘Is Concias’ tomb of giants, in the Quartucciu area: one of the 32 nuragic monuments included in the project presented to Unesco by our association. It is certainly not easy to combat incivility, but we trust in the sensitivity and commitment of the institutions concerned to remedy this state of affairs.
As we read on the website of Sardegna Cultura, ‘the tomb stands at an altitude of 350 metres above sea level, on the western slopes of Monte dei Sette Fratelli, in the Sarrabus region’… ‘Known as “Sa Domu ‘e s’Orku”, it presents the classic planimetric scheme, with a rectangular body slightly tapering towards the bottom and a wide semicircular exedra. In the centre of the exedra, made up of rows of well-worked stones of decreasing size towards the top, opens the trapezoidal-shaped entrance; the jambs consist of two blocks – one on each side – surmounted by a rectangular lintel with no outlet window. The funeral corridor, rectangular in plan, has a rectangular bench at the bottom – leaning against the closing slab – that occupies the entire width of the room. The masonry is built with rows of projecting stones; the section of the chamber, angular at the entrance, becomes truncated-ogival in the middle and ogival at the bottom. The floor consists of the natural flattened rocky surface. In the area in front of the entrance, a granite betyle was found at the time of the excavation; this is today, straightened, to the side of the entrance, on the right. Near the O-wing of the exedra, three shafts dug into the rock and delimited by circles of stones of different sizes, overlapping and concentric. The tomb can be dated to the Middle Bronze Age – Recent Bronze Age’.
The photos of the Is Concias tomb of giants are by Andrea Mura-Nuragando Sardegna, Marco Cocco and Diversamente Sardi.
