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The Navetas of Menorca

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

W. J. Hemp
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In Archaeologia, vol. lxxvi, a number of rock-cut tombs in Mallorca, dating from the Bronze Age, were described by the present writer, and attention was called to the general resemblance of their plans to those of the megalithic tombs known as navetas. These buildings occur both in Mallorca and in Menorca, but the better known and better preserved examples are to be found in the smaller and less highly cultivated island. In 1892, M. Émile Cartailhac published excellent photographs, and less satisfactory plans, of some of the Menorcan examples in Monuments Primitifs des Îies Baléares, and a recent examination suggested that certain additional details were worth placing on record, as they serve to link the built-up structures more closely with the rock-cut tombs, and indicate a definite relation of both to the long barrows of Britain.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , April 1932 , pp. 127 - 135
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1932

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page 127 note 1 Plates 41–6 and figures 22–6.

page 128 note 1 Es Tudons is the local Menorcan name under which this naveta has been described by M. Cartailhac and many others; it is, therefore, retained here. It appears in its Catalan form as Els Tudons on the official ‘Mappa Militar’. Es Tudons, ‘the wood-pigeons’, is the name of the estate on which the monument stands.

page 130 note 1 They have been drawn by Mr. S. Piggott from measurements taken by the writer.

page 130 note 2 Archaeologia, lxxx 191.

page 135 note 1 Bolleti de la Societat Arqueológica Luliana, xxii, 189. The navetas here described (which were 15 metres long) were subdivided by a series of low cross walls ; in one case the innermost division so formed contained the entrance to a steep stairway (antechamber) leading to a series of three rock-cut chambers, behind the naveta and below its floor level.