Borore, Tomb of the Giants of Imbertighe

The burial is located in the territory of Borore, in the Marghine region, in central-northern Sardinia. Defined by Pinza as “the prospectus of the most beautiful tomb of giants known in Sardinia”, the burial today preserves only the curved stele and the wings of the exedra.
The graphic documentation published by Mackenzie, however, makes it possible to reconstruct at least the size of the burial, which consisted of a long grave body (11.50 m) with a burial compartment (length 9.00 m; width 1.00 m) and a large exedra (cord m 10/11; arrow m 5.40).
The exedra is made of basalt boulders arranged in regular rows. In the center stands the monolithic stele (height 3.65 m), sculpted with extreme care, almost elliptical in shape, with the typical flat relief frame (width 0.27/25 m; thickness 0.15 m) that interrupts at the bottom where it merges with the lower part of the monolith.
The façade is divided into three parts: the base, smooth and thicker (width m 1.50/1.83; height m 0.88; thickness m 0.48), which preserves in the center the quadrangular door with rounded upper corners (width m 0.49; height m 0.58; thickness m 0.48); the trapezoidal median frame (width m 1.38/1.35; height m 1.04) and the upper bezel (width m 1.37; height m 1.21) from the transverse strip (length m 1.38/1.36; width m 0.22/0.23; thickness m 0.14/0.17).
The thickness of the stele gradually decreases towards the upper end (from m 0.48 to m 0.37) while the rear surface, carefully flattened, shows an accentuated convexity at m 2.80 in height.
The tomb can be dated to the Middle Bronze.

History of the excavations
was recorded in its entirety by Lamarmora, in the first half of the nineteenth century, and again by Mackenzie, in 1908.

Bibliography
A. Della Marmora, Voyage en Sardaigne ou déscription statistique, phisique et politique de cette île avec des recherches sur ses productions naturelles et ses antiquités, II (antiquities), Paris, A. Bertrand-Torino, J. Bocca, 1840, p. 26, table. IV, 2;
G. Pinza, “Primitive Monuments of Sardinia”, in Ancient Monuments of the Lincei, XI, 1901, coll. 1-280, Tav.XIX, 2;
D. Mackenzie, “The dolmens, tombs of the giants and nuraghi of Sardinia”, in Papers of the British School at Rome, V, 2, 1910, p. 45, figg. 30-31;
A. Taramelli, “Sheet 205, Capo Mannu; Sheet 206, Macomer”, in Archaeological Edition of the 100,000 Italian Map, Florence, Military Geographic Institute, 1935, p. 47; E. Contu, The meaning of the 'stele' in the tombs of giants, series “Notebooks. Archaeology and Conservation”, edited by F. Lo Schiavo, Sassari, Dessì, 1978, p. 8, table. II, 4;
A. Moravetti, Archaeological research in the Marghine-Planargia. The Marghine - Monuments, Part One. Sassari, C. Delfino, 1998 (Archaeological Sardinia. Studies and monuments; 5);
A. Moravetti, Archaeological research in the Marghine-Planargia. The Planargia — Analysis and Monuments, Part Two. Sassari, C. Delfino, 2000 (Archaeological Sardinia. Studies and monuments; 5).

How to get there
You leave the SS 131 Carlo Felice at the junction of km 135 and, at the crossroads, turn to Borore on the SP 33 Borore-Ottana; as soon as you cross the junction for Borore, take the SP 66 for Sedilo and turn right, in the direction of Borore. After about 300 meters, you will find, on the left, the entrance of a small paved road that leads, after about 200 meters, in front of the land where the grave is located.