Monte Baranta | Amazing Megalithic Complex in Ancient Sardinia, 2500 BC | Megalithomania

Join Megalithomania on an exclusive tour to Sardinia in September 2021. Details here: http://www.megalithomania.co.uk/sardi.... Monte Baranta is a pre-Nuragic settlement in Nurra at the extreme north-western edge of Sardinia and is home to remarkable megalithic remains built by the Monte Claro Culture. It dates to the Copper Age (2500-2000 BC) and was constructed with massive cyclopean walls following the natural contours of the terrain.The fortress is comprised of a wall-tower and a group of rectangular huts built with large rocks and boulders: even the horse-shoe shaped tower is huge, six and a half meters thick and nine metres high. It sits perched on an outcrop of trachyte over the valley below. At the far end of the wall is a sacred area with a megalithic circle where rituals were carried out. It is made up of 80 standing straight up in a 10 metre wide circle. Between the rocks are characteristic menhir, one split into two pieces, another whole lying on a rocky raise, perfectly polished. East of the wall you will also find the remains of a small village. Seven large, rectangular, multi-room dwellings have so far been identified. Proof of the vitality and density of the population can be seen in the surrounding area where over twenty nuraghe towers are placed. Includes exclusive aerial footage.

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