S’Ena ’e Thomes

The Giants' grave of S'Ena'e Thomes, known in Italian as Tomba dei Giganti di S'ena'e Thomes, is an archaeological site of the Nuragic era in the municipality of Dorgali, in the province of Nuoro, Italy. Its name comes from Sardinian and translates as Valley of the Tombs.

The tomb dates to the Bronze Age, approximately between 1500 and 1200 BC. It has a dolmen structure with a central stele. The large exedra, the curved frontal area, is made of slabs stuck into the ground and arranged in descending size from the stele.

The funeral hall is rectangular and about 11 meters long. It is covered with large stone slabs arranged in a Jack arch. The catalogue gives a broader range of 1900 to 730 BCE, based on a typological estimate.

Giants' graves are a type of Sardinian megalithic gallery grave built in the Bronze Age by the Nuragic civilization. Local people and archaeologists use the name tomba dei giganti for them. They were collective tombs, and about 800 have been found across Sardinia. A stone cairn lies over the burial chambers.

Monuments of this kind come in two general types. In the slab type, uncut slabs are set on end in the ground and arranged side by side, usually with a central stele that is the largest slab, up to 4 metres high, with a doorway cut through it. A second type has a stele and walls built of shaped blocks.

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