Domus de janas di Serruggiu
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The chambered cairn known as Domus de janas di Serruggiu lies in Cuglieri, Italy. In open records it appears as Wikidata item Q123956485, mapped at 40.1787° N, 8.5726° E.
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Domus de janas, Sardinian for "houses of the fairies" or, alternatively, "houses of witches", are a type of pre-Nuragic rock-cut chamber tomb found in Sardinia. The names are folklore: later people imagined the small carved rooms as dwellings of fairies or witches. In fact they are tombs, with several chambers quarried out by the people of the San Ciriaco through Ozieri cultures and later groups, in a layout that resembles a house. The full article, “Domus de janas of Sardinia”, follows below under About this kind of monument.
Dating
No date has been recorded for this site, and the Atlas does not guess one. Where a regional range exists for this kind of monument it is given in the notes on this page, as background and not as a date for this site.
Landscape and neighbours
Counting outward from Domus de janas di Serruggiu, there are 0 catalogued sites within 1 km, 14 within 5 km and 111 within 10 km, and none of them is of the same kind. That puts it inside a dense cluster of monuments. In Cuglieri, Italy, 1 of the 34 catalogued sites are classed as chambered cairn.
Nearest to it are Nuraghe Bunneddu (3.3 km north-west, nuraghe); Nuraghe Padru Maggiore (3.6 km west, nuraghe); Nuraghe Columbargiu II (3.8 km north-east, nuraghe); Nuraghe Columbargiu (3.9 km north-east, nuraghe). The catalogue is assembled from open records and is not complete, so unrecorded monuments may lie closer.
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The open records used here carry no heritage designation for the site, which says nothing either way about its legal status. The open records for it are Wikidata (Q123956485), 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.
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Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Domus de janas of Sardinia
Domus de janas, Sardinian for "houses of the fairies" or, alternatively, "houses of witches", are a type of pre-Nuragic rock-cut chamber tomb found in Sardinia. The names are folklore: later people imagined the small carved rooms as dwellings of fairies or witches. In fact they are tombs, with several chambers quarried out by the people of the San Ciriaco through Ozieri cultures and later groups, in a layout that resembles a house.
They were built mostly between 3400 and 2700 BCE, and so date to the Late Neolithic, the Chalcolithic and the early Bronze Age, including the Bell Beaker period. At Anghelu Ruju near Alghero a necropolis of them has 38 tombs. Other large sites are Montessu near Villaperuccio and Sant'Andrea Priu at Bonorva. Many more are found throughout the island, with the exception of Gallura, where the dead were usually buried in megalithic circles such as those of Li Muri.
The internal chambers vary in shape, from that of a rounded hut with a conical or triangular ceiling. The walls are often decorated with reliefs or etchings of spirals, zig-zags and bull's horns, and some neolithic murals are arguably the oldest known examples of egg tempera painting. Carved or painted false doors appear in about 20 tombs, mostly in the north-west, among them some at Anghelu Ruju, which are datable to between about 3200 and 1600 BCE; the earliest predate false doors in Egyptian tombs.
The Atlas sometimes files these tombs as chambered cairns, but they are the same Sardinian type, and this article applies to them.
When visiting, look for carving on the ceilings and walls, and note that tombs were reused over many centuries.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Domus de janas, Wikipedia: Nuragic civilization, Wikipedia: Nuraghe · CC BY-SA 4.0
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- 40°10′43″ N, 8°34′21″ EFor a GPS or map app: 40.17867, 8.57262
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