Nuraghe Piscu 3D

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The name is said to derive from su piscu, the bishop of the diocese of Barbaria, to whom the judges of Cagliari made numerous donations, including the land where the archaeological park stands. The Nuraghe Piscu rises imposingly on a hill, along the 128 state road to Senorbì and Mandas, a few steps from Suelli, which in the Middle Ages was a bishop's seat and has always been a centre of veneration for Saint George the bishop.
Mentioned in various medieval documents and known locally as sa domu de s'orcu, the Piscu is the most monumental and best preserved of the 200 nuraghi surveyed in Trexenta, archaeologically 'investigated' and restored in the 1980s. The majestic complex architecture was built between the Middle and Recent Bronze Age (15th-11th centuries B.C.), constructed with blocks of limestone marl, worked and arranged in regular rows, and formed by a main tower, the oldest of the structure, and four corner towers, joined by thick walls, built at a later stage. Inside the bastion, almost a square with sides of about thirty metres, is a courtyard. Around it, a low wall of large boulders 'embraces' five projecting towers and includes a village of numerous circular and quadrangular huts.
The main tower, nine metres high and eleven metres in diameter, is accessed through an architraved entrance with a drainage window above. The corridor has two opposing niches and leads into the large tholos chamber, built with hewn blocks of limestone. The technique is 'overhanging': the rings decrease in diameter as one ascends. Originally it must have consisted of two floors reached by a staircase or through external terraces. The corridor then leads to the courtyard, over which are the entrances to the four secondary towers of different sizes. Two of them are adjoining, so that the unusual plan looks more like a trilobate than a quadrilobate. The four towers have niches and embrasures; the largest is similar in size to the donjon, with a circular chamber and a T-shaped room.
A well, used as a cistern to collect rainwater, was brought to light inside the wall. Various types of vases emerged in the bottom, some small with handles and diagonally cut upper cavity (perhaps glasses). The first excavations date back to 1860: in the keep, a large jar embedded in the ground and covered by a plaque, oyster shells, boar tusks and animal bones were found; in a chamber and in the hallway, a bronze bowl, pottery shards, pieces of millstones, a piece of marble, perhaps used for tanning hides and charred grain.
The Piscu is the most representative building in an area of high prehistoric density, controlling the surrounding fertile valleys. From the small hill where it stands, you can see other nuraghi, about 15, including Planu Senis, as well as pre-nuragic sites, such as the necropolis of Pranu Siara and Santu Perdu.
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