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The village is evocatively located between cyst, oak and terebinth trees, in a sinkhole created by tectonic sinking in the heart of Mount Tiscali, in the Supramonte di Oliena.
The area has two clusters of huts of different floor plan, size and function. The first agglomeration, consisting of about forty huts, is located in sector N of the cavity, on a steep slope: it is not unlikely, therefore, that the structures were built on artificial terraces.
The huts, small in size, have an elongated circular and oval plan. The walls are preserved for a considerable height and are not very thick (m 0.55), built with crude small stones placed irregularly with the use of abundant mud mortar.
One of the houses, well preserved up to a few years ago (external diameter m 5.30, internal diameter m 4.72; height m 4.50), has thin walls with a strong projection that originally had to support a stramineal shield roof with radial joists.
The interior of the room is accessed through a large entrance (width 1.19 m; height 1.20 m), which still preserves the terebinth wooden lintel in its original position. The room is expanded by some subsidiary rooms: a small niche and cabinets.
The second village, located on the S/O side, consists of about thirty huts.
With the exception of one building, these structures in most cases leaning against the wall of the sinkhole have a rectangular or quadrangular plan and are decidedly smaller than those built on the N side.
Perhaps used as warehouses for supplies and as animal shelters, it is believed that they may have had an original wooden roof with a single slope.
Scarce nuragic ceramics come from the village, some decorated with rings (9th-8th century BC) and others from the Roman age.
History of the excavations
It was described for the first time in 1910 by Ettore Pais and, in greater detail, in 1927 by Antonio Taramelli; both scholars were able to observe the structures of the huts that were still almost intact. A brief excavation campaign was conducted by the Superintendence for Archaeological Heritage of Sassari and Nuoro in 2000.
Bibliography
E. Pais, “Tiscali nel Nuoro”, in Rivista d'Italia, February 1911;
A. Taramelli, “Dorgali (Nuoro) Archaeological Explorations in the Territory of the Municipality”, in Excavation News, IX, 1933, pp. 347-380; A. Moravetti, Serra Orrios and the archaeological monuments of Dorgali. Sassari, C. Delfino, 1998 (Archaeological Sardinia. Guides and itineraries; 26), pp. 97-105.
How to get There
From the Oliena E exit, take the SP 46 and proceed to the junction for the Fonte di Su Gologone, on the right if you come from Oliena, on the left if you come from Dorgali, which will be marked by a road sign. Continue on the Su Gologone road towards Lanaitto. Follow the difficult Lanaitto dirt road following the signs for the Sa Oche cave, continue past the Sa Oche Refuge, on the internal road of Lanaitto, until the signs for Tiscali.
Structure category: archaeological area or park
Content type:
Archaeological complex
Usability: Open
Province: Nuoro
Common: Dorgali
Macro Territorial Area: Central Sardinia
POSTAL CODE: 08022
Address: Supramonte di Dorgali - località Monte Tiscali
Telephone: +39 348 4780104 +39 338 8341618
E-mail: info@museoarcheologicodorgali.it museoarcheologico@comune.dorgali.nu.it
Website: www.museoarcheologicodorgali.com
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Other services: In Dorgali it is possible to visit two other archaeological sites: Serra Orrios and Nuraghe Mannu. Visiting one of these sites allows free admission to the Archaeological Museum of Dorgali.
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Dorgali, Villaggio di Tiscali Images number: 4
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