Luras, Dolmen di Ciuledda

The dolmen is located NE of Luras, on a slope that dominates large flat areas.
The tomb was built on a granite rock bench in a small flat basin equipped with numerous erratic boulders and cavities with natural channels - perhaps partially adapted by man - which constitute an excellent rainwater runoff system around the monument.
The burial has a semicircular chamber (width m 1.50; length m 3; height m 1-0.60) - with an entrance facing E - delimited on the d side, straight, by three slabs worked in the visible face, and on the upper one, curvilinear, by four orthostats interspersed with minute stone. The back wall consists of two overlapping slabs.
A single polygonal slab (length m 3.40; width m 2.50; thickness m 0.50) - which alternates straight and curvilinear sections and tapers at the edges - forms the cover of the compartment.

History of excavations
In 1996, the monument was the subject of archaeological research by B. D'Arragon.

Bibliography
A. Antona, “Luras”, in I Sardi. Sardinia from the Paleolithic to the Age of the Nuraghi, edited by E. Anati, Milan, Jaca Book, 1984, pp. 278-279;
L. Usai, Gallura: dolmen, nuraghi, castles. Archaeological itineraries in the province of Sassari, Sassari, Editrice Democratica Sarda, 1991, pp. 75-77;
B. D'Arragon, “Operations of consolidation and anastylosis on two dolmenic monuments in Sardinia”, in Proceedings of the XIII Congress of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences, IV, Forlì 1998, pp. 153-157;
B. D'Arragon, “Preliminary note on the recent discovery of San Michele di Ozieri ceramic material in Luras (SS)”, in Ozieri Cultural Sites in Gallura, a curated by A. Antona, series “Notebooks of the Superintendence archaeological for the Provinces of Sassari and Nuoro”, 21, Ozieri, Il Torchietto, 1999, pp. 133-174.

How to get
From Luras, exit on SP 10, in the direction of Luogosanto, turn right on the last road in the town (Via Ariosto) and follow it to the end. Follow the signs to get to the Ciuledda dolmen. The burial can be reached by continuing to d., after a few hundred meters, on a downhill road. The dolmen is located on a fenced plot accessible through a wooden gate.