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Nuraghe Miuddu is a complex nuraghe in the Marghine subregion, in the territory of the comune of Birori, Italy, on the southern side of the Strada Statale 129 Macomer-Nuoro. It is dated to between 1900 and 730 BCE by a typological estimate and belongs to the Nuragic civilization.
It stands a short distance from the tomb of giants of the same name and from the Nuraghe Nuscadore.
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Nuraghe Miuddu
DescriptionSources for this section
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Nuraghe Miuddu is a complex nuraghe consisting of a central tower with a forward wall (antemurale), enclosed by a bastion. The bastion has two straight stretches and one curved stretch, with three corner towers.
The nuraghe lies along the Mulargia-Birori axis, one of the natural routes linking the plateau of Campeda with the plain of Macomer.
SettingSources for this section
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The nuraghe lies along the Mulargia-Birori axis, one of the natural routes linking the plateau of Campeda with the plain of Macomer. Together with the nuraghi Orolo, Tintirriolos and Sa Corte, it stands in a small area where the concentration of such buildings indicates a strong need to control this pass.
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- Wikipedia (Italian): Nuraghe MiudduCC BY-SA 4.0
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The nuraghe is the main type of ancient megalithic building in Sardinia and has become the symbol of the island and of its Nuragic civilization. Nuraghi were built during the Nuragic Age, between 1900 and 730 BCE. More than 7,000 have been found, and archaeologists believe that originally there were more than 10,000. A nuraghe has the outer shape of a truncated conical tower, rather like a medieval tower, with a tholos-like vault inside.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Sardinian nuraghi
The nuraghe is the main type of ancient megalithic building in Sardinia, and it has become the symbol of the island and of its Nuragic civilization. They were built during the Nuragic Age, between 1900 and 730 BCE. More than 7,000 have been found, and archaeologists believe that originally there were more than 10,000. A nuraghe has the outer shape of a truncated conical tower, rather like a medieval tower, with a tholos-like vault inside.
The finest is Su Nuraxi at Barumini, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997. Its oldest part is a central tower with three superposed chambers, 18.6 metres high, built of basalt blocks between the seventeenth and thirteenth centuries BCE. In the Late Bronze Age four corner towers joined by a curtain wall were added, and a village grew around it, inhabited from the thirteenth to the sixth century BCE. Scholars consider it the most impressive expression of the Nuragic civilization.
There is no consensus on what the nuraghi were for: rulers' residences, military strongholds, meeting halls, temples and ordinary dwellings have all been proposed. The Nuragic civilization lasted from the eighteenth century BCE until the Iron Age or the beginning of Roman colonisation in 238 BCE, and building of nuraghi had stopped by the twelfth or eleventh century BCE. Its origins are disputed: the traditional theory of Giovanni Lilliu, from 1966, saw migrants related to the Beaker culture, while others argue for local development. Even the word nuraghe has an uncertain and disputed etymology.
Many nuraghi have never been excavated, and their dates are inferred from their form.
When visiting, look for the stone courses, the entrance corridor, and the village of huts that often surrounds the tower.
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Photographs
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Lore
Evidence & Lore
What the sources actually support — and, kept apart, what has been claimed.
What the evidence supports
Dates
Est. 1900–730 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for nuraghes in Italy; this site has not been dated itself. The nuraghe is the main type of ancient megalithic edifice of Sardinia developed during the Nuragic Age between 1900 and 730 BC.Source for this date
Where it stands
Italy
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- Coordinates
- 40°16′07″ N, 8°49′33″ EFor a GPS or map app: 40.26849, 8.82571
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
- Nuraghe Palatu0.6 km W
- Tomba dei giganti di Palatu1.0 km W
- Nuraghe Sa Mandra 'e Sa Giua1.1 km E
- Tomba dei giganti di Noazza I1.2 km SW
- Nuraghe Sa Corte1.4 km NE
- Nuraghe Orosai1.4 km W
- Nuraghe Tintirriolos1.5 km N
- Nuraghe Pranu 'e Ruos1.7 km N
- Nuraghe Puttusuiles I1.7 km SW
- Tomba dei giganti di Lassia1.7 km SW
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Text, licence and sources
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- Wikipedia (Italian): Nuraghe MiudduCC BY-SA 4.0
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