Cargeghe, Domus of Pescialzu

The necropolis is located in the countryside of Sassari, in northwestern Sardinia.
The two underground burials of Pescialzu are characterized by the reproduction, on the rocky front, of typical elements of the tombs of nuragic giants: the architectural score of the curved stele and the wings of the exedra.
Tomb I is built in the center of a rock façade (width 6.50 m; height 3.60 m) on which the upper lunette of a stele is dug (width 1.33 m; height 1.20 m; depth 14 cm) delimited at the bottom by a transverse strip (height 35 cm) that separates it from the lower panel (width 1.35 m; height 1.30/1.35 m). In the center of the latter, the access door to the burial (65 x 95 cm) opens. The entrance is flanked by a sort of bench-seat (width cm 60; height cm 20/35). A corridor (depth 95 cm), now lowered, leads into the rectangular room (m 2.10 x 3.85 x 1.90), which has a niche on the left wall raised above the floor level. Like I, Tomb II also reproduces on the rock wall (width 6.25 m; height 3.20 m) the curved score of the stele formed by a lunette, incomplete in the upper sector (width 1.40 m; height 1.25 m), separated from the lower panel (width 1.40 m; height 1.55 m) by a horizontal strip (width 30 cm). The upper cut of the rock wall reproduces the development of the wings of the exedra and, in part, of the mound (prof. m 1.60). Slightly set back from the front-stele are three holes that probably should have contained as many lithic betilines. Another short corridor (depth 95 cm) leads into the round cell (m 3.35 x 3.35 x 2.60), which preserves a niche on the right wall and the signs of surface processing carried out with a metal instrument. The burials date back to the Middle Bronze Age.

History of excavations
The domus were published by Editta Castaldi.

Bibliography
E. Castaldi, Domus nuragiche, Rome, De Luca, 1975, pp. 32-34, figg. 40-41, tables. IX/I, II, III;
G. Lilliu, The Sardinian Civilization from the Paleolithic to the Nuraghi Age, Turin, Nuova ERI, 1988, pp. 279-280.

How to get there
Leave the town of Cargeghe and take the SP to Florinas. Just after the last houses in the town, turn right on an asphalt road. Follow it for about 500 meters and turn right again on a road with a natural background. Continue for about 1 km until you reach the rock wall on which the two hypogeic tombs of Pescialzu are dug.