2015-06-29 13:28:40
The mound #7, rediscovered in an area that includes at least another hundred burial mounds, between the coasts of Pescoluse and Torre Pali, is an important archaeological discovery. It looks like a pile of stones on an area of 200 square meters in a trapezoidal plan.
On the east side is a stone cist of a rectangular form that, in the moment of discovery, showed three vessels with incineration. A thick layer of ground separated these three burials from at least 50 other entombed individuals. In the area overlooking the stone cist, burned stones were found, all referable to a small altar where fire was ignited for ritual purposes.
The monument seems bordered on the south side by a sort of wall consisted of an oblique row of large boulders about 14 m long and interrupted by the road. On this side of the wall, also interrupted by the road, is a surface with stones of about 50 square meters, in which is a circular cultic hole bordered by eight plates containing scorched earth and broken vase almost in half. At about 1 m from this and against the wall in axis with the cist, a quadrangular structure whose filling was composed of stones, earth and bone remains.
From a carbon sample, they date back to 2930-2750 BC. At the center of the mound a combustion structure was found, full of earth and burnt bones, probably used for cremating the individuals, to whom the remains collected in the three vessels at the base of the cist could belong to.
Località Montani, Salve