Uras, Domu Beccia Complex

The monument is located in a flat area of the Campidano di Oristano, in central-eastern Sardinia.
The Domu Beccia nuraghe is an impressive complex building, built in a “multifaceted” technique, with basalt blocks that have just been drafted. It consists of a triangular bastion that encloses the original tower and a courtyard, and a turreted hextagonal antewall. To the south of the structure there is a large village.
The antewall, with its irregular broken pattern, encompasses six towers at the top of the heptagon. The towers have a diameter varying between 5 and 6 meters, they protrude outside for half their circumference and are better preserved on the outside. The entrance to the wall, which can be identified almost with certainty in the south/south-west curtain, introduces a large space that shows traces of wall structures that are difficult to define, perhaps the remains of curtains from an older race.
The bastion (38.50 m x 33.30 m) is almost built up, at the northern summit, on the antewall. It is composed of three towers - north, south/southwest, south/southeast - joined by straight curtains.
The central tower is almost leaning against the north tower of the bastion and is preserved for equal height; its entrance overlooks a sub-circular courtyard. The state of burial of the monument does not make it possible to detect the planimetric articulations of the rooms, entrances and corridors that, leading to the central courtyard, were supposed to allow the connection between the various parts of the building. The nuraghe dates back to 1400-1000 BC.
To the south of the complex, there is a vast village, consisting of about 150 discreetly preserved huts, generally circular in shape and with a diameter varying between 5 and 6 meters. On the north side, a short distance away, you can see the plan profile of a tomb of giants with an elongated apsidal body and a semicircular exedra.

History of excavations
The complex has been documented since the middle of the last century.

Bibliography
G. Lilliu, “Notiziario (1947)”, in Studi Sardi, VIII, 1948, pp. 418-419;
G. Lilliu, “Nuragic Antiquities in the Diocese of Ales-Usellus-Terralba: Aspects and Values, Cagliari, Fossataro, 1975, pp. 136, 142, 143, 116, 159; L. Usai, “Uras: loc. Domu Beccia”, in I Sardi: Sardinia from the Paleolithic to the Roman Age, edited by E. Anati, Jaca Book, Milan, 1984, pp. 206-208.

How to get
From the town of Uras, exit south on the old SS 131: the Nuraghe Sa Domu Beccia is located about 800 m from the town, after the cemetery.