Na Nova

Na Nova, also known as Son Amer and Talaia d'en Cama, is a Spanish Iron Age Talaiotic settlement on the island of Mallorca, near the resort of Cala Llombards. Although it is highly altered as a whole, it has been designated a Bien de Interés Cultural.

Its most characteristic structure is the talaiot, a tower-shaped megalithic building in good condition. The talaiot is 12 metres (39 ft) in diameter on the outside and 6 metres (20 ft) on the inside. It is more than 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) high and preserves five courses of huge stones in its best preserved parts.

The inside is full of rubblestones, but the polylithic column still stands, as does the entrance with its stone lintel. The rest of the structures are partially razed and covered with more rubble, and have not been satisfactorily identified.

The site was densely covered with bushes and trees until its first cleaning in 2016 and 2017, which made the structures visible. The first excavation consisted mainly of removing rubble to leave the structures visible. After the 2020 campaign the north face was totally uncovered and the south one partially revealed. Its eastern face supports an ancient wall, while its western face supports a modern one from the 19th century.

A talayot is a Bronze Age megalith found on the islands of Menorca and Mallorca, part of the Talaiotic culture, dating from the late second millennium and the early first millennium BCE. There are at least 274 of them. They generally take the form of circular or square buildings and may have been used as dwellings or meeting places. The catalogue gives a typological estimate of 1600 to 123 BCE for the site.

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