Specchia Puledri
DatedEst. 1900–730 BCE
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Specchia Puledri is a megalith in Villa Castelli, Italy. It lies at 40.5962° N, 17.5062° E.
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Specchia Puledri
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Italy's megaliths are scattered and varied. Menhirs are especially common in Sardinia, where at least 332 standing stones can be seen. They include elaborate statue-menhirs with a human face at the top and gendered symbols on the flat front, over a hundred of them found around the village of Laconi, and called perdas fittas or perdas lungas in Sardinian. In Apulia, near Bisceglie, the Bronze Age dolmens include the Dolmen della Chianca, with a passage 10 metres long leading to a burial cell of 2 by 1.6 metres. Small dolmens also exist in Sicily, at Mura Pregne near Palermo, Sciacca, Monte Bubbonia and Butera. The regional background, “Megaliths of Italy”, is given below.
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No scientific date has been published for this site. Monuments of this type in Italy are generally dated 1900 BCE to 730 BCE; the site itself may fall inside or outside that range.
The nuraghe is the main type of ancient megalithic edifice of Sardinia developed during the Nuragic Age between 1900 and 730 BC.
Setting
5 other recorded monuments lie within 10 km (0 within 1 km, 2 within 5 km), 5 of them of the same type. In Villa Castelli, Italy, 1 of the 1 recorded monuments are of this type.
The nearest recorded monuments are Specchia Facciasquata (1.8 km north-west, megalith); Specchia Casteluzzo o Miano (3.8 km east, megalith); Specchia Capace (5.1 km east, megalith); Specchia Madonna della Grotta (7.0 km east, megalith).
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Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Megaliths of Italy
Italy's megaliths are scattered and varied. Menhirs are especially common in Sardinia, where at least 332 standing stones can be seen. They include elaborate statue-menhirs with a human face at the top and gendered symbols on the flat front, over a hundred of them found around the village of Laconi, and called perdas fittas or perdas lungas in Sardinian. In Apulia, near Bisceglie, the Bronze Age dolmens include the Dolmen della Chianca, with a passage 10 metres long leading to a burial cell of 2 by 1.6 metres. Small dolmens also exist in Sicily, at Mura Pregne near Palermo, Sciacca, Monte Bubbonia and Butera.
In the north, statue stelae of the Copper Age and Iron Age stand in the Alps and in Lunigiana. The Arco stelae in Trentino, discovered in 1989, are six Copper Age statue menhirs, and Arco I is a limestone stele 2.15 metres high showing an armed figure with seven daggers, three axes and three halberds. The Iron Age statue stelae of Liguria and Lunigiana are among the best-known Italian megalithic monuments.
Sardinia's tombs and towers, the nuraghi, giants' graves and domus de janas, have their own articles. Dolmens occur in Apulia, Sardinia and Sicily, and statue menhirs, which are carved standing stones of the later Neolithic, are most commonly found in southern and western France, Corsica, Sardinia, Italy and the Alps. In Lunigiana the statue stelae are believed to have served as funerary or commemorative monuments for local elites, though their exact function remains debated.
When visiting, pair a megalith with a local museum, since several statue stelae are kept indoors.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Dolmen, Wikipedia: List of menhirs, Wikipedia: Statue menhir, Wikipedia: Bisceglie, Wikipedia: List of dolmens, Wikipedia: Arco stelae, Wikipedia: Lunigiana · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Dates
Est. 1900–730 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for megaliths 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
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- Coordinates
- 40°35′46″ N, 17°30′22″ EFor a GPS or map app: 40.59620, 17.50624
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