Necropolis in Sardinia, millenary testimonies of antique burial
Nurra
Anghelu Ruju is the most famous necropolis in the zone of Alghero. It was discovered in 1904 on the property of Sella & Mosca wine society, next to the street of the “Due Mari” (“two seas”, in Li Punti locality). Its name laterally means “red angel”. It is made of about forty funerary caves of small dimensions, partly communicating, dug into the rock between the VI and the III millennium B.C. Inside, numerous objects were found and weapons too, similar to those discovered during the diggings into the near nuragh Lattara. Various decorations are visible in some tombs
Penisola del Sinis
In the proximity of Cabras lake, we find the ruins of “Cuccuru Is Arrìus” pre-nuragic village, where numerous hypogean tombs were discovered nearby: inside, the archaeologists found small idols in various material, dedicated to the Dea Madre (Mother Goddess). Unfortunately, the village was destroyed in the fifties during the works for the realization of a canal.
Sarcidano
In the necropolis of Su Monti, in Orroli the archaeologists discovered important findings.
In Escalaplano territory, the necropolis of Fossada is also very interesting.
Sarrabus
The imposing necropolis of Pranu Muttedu, in Goni (going back to 3000 B.C.) presents numerous tombs, which are set inside stone circles. The collective tomb is also quite interesting, this would have accommodated one or more important people of the nuragic village. The Menhirs are about sixty.
Sassarese-Romangia
In the territory of Sassari, we found the necropolis of Mesu ‘e Montes and S’Adde Asile.
Sulcis-Iglesiente
In the VI-II century B.C., a necropolis was built in Monte ‘e Cresia of Sant’Antioco: we suggest you to visit the so-called “tomba dell’affresco” (tomb of the frescos).
in the locality of Sa Pranedda , we point out the hypogean necropolis of Montessu (Villaperuccio), which is one of the most important in Sardinia. This is equipped with an amphitheatre, and in some of the forty prehistoric tombs, dug into the rock (between the IV and the II millennium B.C.) it is possible to admire the paintings and the bull faces that embellish the walls. Among the decorations, there is also a profile of the Mother Goddess. Not all of these tombs can be visited: the biggest ones constitute a kind of sanctuary-tomb.
If you pass by Santadi, do not miss the archaeological area of Pani Loriga, next to the fortress built by the Phoenicians in the VII century B.C., you will find the Phoenix-Punic necropolis (150 tombs, a part of which was adapted to Domus de Janas).
In Siliqua, the ruins of Phoenix and Punic settlements (Medau Casteddu e San Pietro) are also quite interesting. You could see a necropoli and a roman aqueduct.
Trexenta
If you are around the territory of Pimentel, we suggest to visit the hypogean necropolis of S’Acqua Salida: two groups of tombs still well preserved.
At two kilometres from Senorbì, the necropolis of Monte Luna shows tombs of various genre ( well and hole) dug either in the calcareous rock or into the tuff. These are originally from the period between the V and the III century B.C. (here were buried the Sard-Punic habitants of Santu Teru zone), but were also used in suggestive ages, as Roman domination rests shows. In the archaeological ethnographic Museum Sa Domu Nosta in Senorbì, you will be able to admire numerous objects discovered during the diggings: vases, jewels, amulets of Egyptian origin but produced in to the craftsmen laboratories of Tharros old city. In the surrounding countryside, two of the most important pieces of Sardinian archaeological heritage were also found, these are the “Mater Mediterranea” ( representing the feminine divinity par excellence of the Nuragic populations, found in 1935,) and the “Miles Cornutus” ( a small bronze statue representing a prehistoric warrior: it is believed to be a “ex voto”, discovered in 1841 ). These are both displayed at the National Archaeological Museum in Cagliari.
