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The Dolmens, Tombs of the Giants, and Nuraghi of Sardinia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2013

Duncan Mackenzie
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Our campaign of 1908 in Sardinia began at the end of September and lasted altogether till the middle of November. On the 13th of October I was joined by Mr. F. G. Newton, architect to the British School, whose skilful handiwork in the shape of many drawings of the dolmens, Tombs of the Giants, and Nuraghi we visited together there will be occasion to admire in what follows. On October 20 the Director arrived from Malta and joining forces with us stayed in the island till November 8, when the duties of the School called him back to Rome. To him we were able to announce several interesting discoveries and our exceptional good luck continued right to the end of our sojourn in Sardinia.

The retiring British Ambassador in Rome, Sir Edwin Egerton, followed our varying fortunes with his usual enlightened and cordial interest. Again in the island we experienced many deeds of kindness and hospitality both from persons in authority and from the simple villagers of the mountains. Unfortunately for us Professor Taramelli was absent at the Archaeological Congress at Parma, and a long and severe illness—now happily recovered from—deprived us of the pleasure and profit of Cavaliere Nissardi's company on one or other of our various rounds. Once more we experienced at Gennamari and at Iglesias the courteous hospitality of the Hon. T. A. and Lady Idina Brassey.

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Papers of the British School at Rome , Volume 5 , 1910 , pp. 88 - 137
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Copyright © British School at Rome 1910

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References

page 89 note 1 For this tomb see my paper on ‘The Tombs of the Giants and the Nuraghi of Sardinia in their West European Relations,’ reprinted from Memnon, vol. ii. fasc. 3, 1–31.

page 102 note 1 After Mortillet, , Nouvelles Archives des Missions Scientifiques iii. Pl. XT. IGoogle Scholar.

page 111 note 1 Compare Bezzenberger, ‘Vorgeschichtliche Bauwerke der Balearen,’ in Zeitsch. f. Eth. 1907, 626, Figs. 63–66. See also Memnon, vol. ii. fasc. 3, pp. 22–3 of reprint.

page 115 note 1 Compare Pinza, in Monumenti dei Lincei, xi. (1901), pp. 258–9Google Scholar, Fig. 138; also Pl. XIX. 1.

page 123 note 1 These considerations are discussed in some detail in my paper contributed to Ausonia, iii. 1908, 18–48Google Scholar.

page 123 note 2 This tomb has been published by Préchac, M. François, Mélanges d'Archéologie et d'Histoire, xxviii. 163–5Google Scholar. for the sake of the Plans and Sections made by Mr. F. G. Newton I venture to call attention to the monument anew.

page 123 note 3 For this see the Cross Section BB.

page 125 note 1 Préchac, loc. cit. Fig. 12.

page 125 note 2 Compare Préchac, ibid. 164–5.

page 126 note 1 The name of Perda Lunga applied to the tomb must be connected with a time when the great cover-slab was still intact.

page 131 note 1 See Fig. 16, Section AA.

page 133 note 1 Published by Taramelli, in Bull. Paletn. xxxii. (1906) p. 268Google Scholar, and Tav. XXIII.

page 136 note 1 Loc. cit. 165–6.

page 136 note 2 Borlase, , The Dolmens of Ireland, i. 146, Figs. 147, 148Google Scholar; 151–2, Figs. 153–4.