Nuraghe Losa

This nuraghic complex is set on a rocky height on the upland plain of Abbasanta. Built in rough-hewn basalt blocks, it consists of a keep and a three-towered curtain wall. The wall has an entrance surmounted by a lintel stone, protected by an antemural and an outer circle of walls; in the enclosure formed by the walls stand the remains of round stone huts. The nuraghe has two elevated entrances: the main one leads into the chamber of the central tower, the secondary entrance to the north leads into the chamber of the rear tower which links up by means of a staircase to the upper portion of the nuraghe. The main tower has preserved its corbelled (tholos) roof. The chamber has a diameter of 5.2 m and a height of 7.6 m. In the vicinity are remains of tomb of the giants. This site was still inhabited in the early Iron Age (beginning of the 9th – second half of the 7th centuries BC) and in later times, also for burial purposes, until the 7th – 8th centuries AD.

(original text on Sardegna Turismo)

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