Talaiot de sa Mata Grossa
DatedEst. 1600–123 BCE
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Overview
About this site
What the sources say
The talayot known as Talaiot de sa Mata Grossa lies in Búger, Spain. The catalogue places it at 39.7685° N, 2.9876° E and links it to Wikidata item Q43096133.
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Where it sits in time
The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.
The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.
The full article
About Talaiot de sa Mata Grossa
This kind of monument hereSources for this section
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A talayot, or talaiot, is a Bronze Age megalith found on the islands of Menorca and Mallorca, part of the Talaiotic culture. Talayots date from the late second millennium and the early first millennium BCE. There are at least 274 of them, in or near Talaiotic settlements and the chamber tombs called navetas. They generally take the form of circular or square buildings, and they may have been used as dwellings or meeting places. Some are thought to have had a defensive purpose; on Menorca, others may have served as lookout or signalling towers, since they form a network. Further down this page, About this kind of monument gives the whole of “Talayots of Mallorca and Menorca”.
DatingSources for this section
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The Atlas shows 1600 BCE to 123 BCE for this site, but that is a regional estimate for this kind of monument, not a date for this particular talayot. No excavation, radiocarbon sample or other measurement is recorded for it, so the real age could fall anywhere within the range, or outside it.
The range rests on this regional background (source: the Wikipedia article “Talaiot”): The Talaiotic chronology spans from the emergence of cyclopean constructions around 1600 BCE to the Romanization in 123 BCE.
Landscape and neighbours
Counting outward from Talaiot de sa Mata Grossa, there are 0 catalogued sites within 1 km, 2 within 5 km and 13 within 10 km, and 13 of them are also classed as talayot. It is one of 1 talayot records among the 1 sites catalogued in Búger, Spain.
The nearest neighbours in the catalogue are Talaiot de Son Corró / Es Puig (2.3 km north, talayot); Talaiot de Son Vivot / Es Puig / Claper des Moro (4.3 km south, talayot); Talaiot des Caülls (5.4 km south, talayot); Talaiot de Vinagrella / Es Forn de Calç (6.4 km south, talayot). The catalogue is assembled from open records and is not complete, so unrecorded monuments may lie closer.
Records and protectionSources for this section
Sources for this section
Wikidata lists the site with the heritage status bien de interés cultural. The open records for it are Wikidata (Q43096133), where corrections and further identifiers can be added. Many such sites stand on private land; check local access rules and respect the monument and its surroundings.
How this page was madeSources for this section
Sources for this section
This page was built automatically from Wikidata (CC0), the heritage register named above and the regional article “Talayots of Mallorca and Menorca”, written for the Atlas from the Wikipedia articles it cites (CC BY-SA 4.0), plus distances and counts computed from the catalogue coordinates. It contains no AI-written text.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Talayots of Mallorca and Menorca
A talayot, or talaiot, is a Bronze Age megalith found on the islands of Menorca and Mallorca, part of the Talaiotic culture. Talayots date from the late second millennium and the early first millennium BCE. There are at least 274 of them, in or near Talaiotic settlements and the chamber tombs called navetas. They generally take the form of circular or square buildings, and they may have been used as dwellings or meeting places. Some are thought to have had a defensive purpose; on Menorca, others may have served as lookout or signalling towers, since they form a network.
The Talaiotic culture was the society of the Gymnesian Islands, the eastern Balearics. It evolved at the end of the second millennium BCE from the Pre-Talaiotic culture, and spans a very wide time frame; there is no agreement among researchers on its phases, which differ between Mallorca and Menorca.
At Torre d'en Galmés on Menorca the settlement developed from the start of the Talaiotic era, about 1400 BCE, and expanded until the end of the Roman occupation, and was one of the biggest towns in the Balearic Islands. It stood on a hill with views over the southern coast and used a sophisticated water collection system with cisterns.
Taulas are T-shaped stone monuments found on Menorca: a vertical pillar with a horizontal stone lying on it, up to 5 metres high, usually enclosed by a U-shaped wall. They were built by the Talaiotic culture between about 500 and 300 BCE, after the talayots, and are frequently found near them. Their meaning is unknown, but they probably had religious or astronomical purposes. Most face south.
When visiting, look at the stonework of the tower and the layout of the settlement around it.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Talayot, Wikipedia: Talaiotic culture, Wikipedia: Torre d'en Galmés, Wikipedia: Taula · CC BY-SA 4.0
Lore
Evidence & Lore
What the sources actually support — and, kept apart, what has been claimed.
What the evidence supports
Dates
Est. 1600–123 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for talayots in Spain; this site has not been dated itself. The Talaiotic chronology spans from the emergence of cyclopean constructions around 1600 BCE to the Romanization in 123 BCE.Source for this date
Where it stands
Spain
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 39°46′07″ N, 2°59′15″ EFor a GPS or map app: 39.76850, 2.98759
Access is as our sources describe it; we have not visited the site to check.
Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
- TalayotTalaiot de Son Corró / Es Puig1600–123 BCE
- TalayotTalaiot de Son Vivot / Es Puig / Claper des Moro1600–123 BCE
- TalayotTalaiot des Caülls1600–123 BCE
- TalayotTalaiot de Vinagrella / Es Forn de Calç1600–123 BCE
- TalayotTalaiot de s'Avençar / Son Trempó1600–123 BCE
- TalayotTalaiot de Tirasset / Can Colau1600–123 BCE
Son Simó1600–123 BCE- TalayotSon Perera Nou / Can Cotxer1600–123 BCE
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Sources
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- 01Wikidata Q43096133wikidata.org
- 02Source for this dateen.wikipedia.org
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
- Talaiot de Son Corró / Es Puig2.3 km N
- Talaiot de Son Vivot / Es Puig / Claper des Moro4.3 km S
- Talaiot des Caülls5.5 km S
- Talaiot de Vinagrella / Es Forn de Calç6.4 km S
- Talaiot de s'Avençar / Son Trempó7.2 km SW
- Talaiot de Tirasset / Can Colau7.5 km S
- Son Simó8.1 km NE
- Son Perera Nou / Can Cotxer8.2 km SE
- Can Milec / Son Pelet8.5 km SE
- Talaiot de Son Mas des Poticari / s'Argenteria9.3 km S
Credit
Text, licence and sources
This page is assembled from open records (Wikidata, CC0; OpenStreetMap, ODbL) and a tradition article paraphrasing Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). No article exists for this site, and nothing here is written by a model.
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