Featured: How and why the ancients enchanted Great Britain and Brittany

How and why the ancients enchanted Great Britain and Brittany

Great Stone Circles, Aubrey Burl

Great Stone Circles, Aubrey Burl

Who's Online

There are currently, 200 guests and 2 members online.

You are a guest. To join in, please register for free by clicking here

Sponsors

<< Our Photo Pages >> Mura Pregne dolmen (Sicily) - Burial Chamber or Dolmen in Italy in Sicily (Sicilia)

Submitted by Salvatore on Friday, 17 December 2010  Page Views: 7861

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Mura Pregne dolmen (Sicily)
Country: Italy
NOTE: This site is 33.992 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Sicily (Sicilia) Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Messina  Nearest Village: Cortevecchia
Latitude: 37.951074N  Longitude: 13.766373E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
2
Be the first person to rate this site - see the 'Contribute!' box in the right hand menu.

Internal Links:
External Links:

Mura Pregne dolmen (Sicily)
Mura Pregne dolmen (Sicily) submitted by Salvatore : "Mura Pregne" dolmen (Sicily) (Vote or comment on this photo)
Burial Chamber (Dolmen) in Sicily (Sicilia)

In Butera, in the province of Caltanissetta (Sicily), exists a dolmen cyst made up of stone slabs assembled in cubiform manner, present also in Sardinia and dated back to the bronze age, around 2900-2100 BC. It is in the new area of "Piano della fiera" where a prehistoric necropolis still stands. Used again in the Greek period, the monument takes us back to mixed cult practices, both Hellenic and indigenous, and characterised by the positioning of human remains inside urns (enchytrismόs) which, in turn, were placed inside these small chambers.

To get to Mura Pregne it takes the highway 113 Palermo-Messina, turning to a little road indicating the location "Cortevecchia", on the slopes of Mount Castellaccio. The dolmen, which falls in an area of great archaeological interest, has been ignored for years because of lack of consideration that the Sicilian scholars have shown against a prehistoric phenomenon that seemed outsider to the cultural experience of the Sicily.

This dolmen has a rectangular, corridor-type, consisting of four large blocks (two on each side) perfectly hewn and planted in the ground, on which is placed a cover slab. A second slab lies beside it, inclined, and a third, could have completed the roof and is lying at the entrance. The building reached to three meters in length.

7 km from Sciacca, next to highway 115, is the dolmen “La Lumia”, located east of the fund “femmina morta”. It was discovered in 1930 among a group of blocks of calcareous tufa and is considered a grave. All around were found fragments of pottery dating from the Ancient Bronze Age. Near the structure there are other boulders with carvings that suggest a small shrine or a sump pit.
You may be viewing yesterday's version of this page. To see the most up to date information please register for a free account.


Do not use the above information on other web sites or publications without permission of the contributor.

Nearby Images from Flickr
Ehemaliges Fiat-Werk
Floriopoli

The above images may not be of the site on this page, but were taken nearby. They are loaded from Flickr so please click on them for image credits.


Click here to see more info for this site

Nearby sites

Click here to view sites on an interactive map of the area

Key: Red: member's photo, Blue: 3rd party photo, Yellow: other image, Green: no photo - please go there and take one, Grey: site destroyed

Download sites to:
KML (Google Earth)
GPX (GPS waypoints)
CSV (Garmin/Navman)
CSV (Excel)

To unlock full downloads you need to sign up as a Contributory Member. Otherwise downloads are limited to 50 sites.


Turn off the page maps and other distractions

Nearby sites listing. In the following links * = Image available
 5.7km ENE 63° Himera Temple* Ancient Temple
 5.7km ENE 63° Gela Temples Ancient Temple
 24.6km ENE 67° Cefalu Temple of Artemis* Ancient Temple
 25.8km NW 307° Solunto* Ancient Village or Settlement
 43.6km E 83° Halaesa* Ancient Village or Settlement
 44.7km NW 306° Grotta dell'Addaura Cave or Rock Shelter
 49.9km W 272° Monte Iato Ancient Village or Settlement
 57.9km WNW 293° Grotta dei Puntali* Cave or Rock Shelter
 62.1km WSW 242° Mount Adranone* Ancient Village or Settlement
 63.7km SW 230° Caltabellotta* Ancient Temple
 64.4km SW 230° Caltabellotta Temple of Cronos* Ancient Temple
 73.9km SSW 191° Temple of Demeter* Ancient Temple
 74.4km SSW 192° Ekklesiasterion of Phalaris* Ancient Village or Settlement
 75.0km SSW 193° Temple of Vulcanus* Ancient Temple
 75.1km SSW 192° Temple of Concordia* Ancient Temple
 75.1km SSW 191° Temple of Juno* Ancient Temple
 75.1km SSW 192° Valley of the Temples* Ancient Temple
 75.1km SSW 193° Temple of Dioscuri* Ancient Temple
 75.2km SSW 192° Temple of Jupiter (Sicily)* Ancient Temple
 75.2km SSW 192° Tomb of Theron* Ancient Temple
 75.3km SW 215° Heraclea Minoa* Ancient Village or Settlement
 76.0km SSW 192° Temple of Asclepius* Ancient Temple
 77.5km SSW 199° Villa di Durrueli* Ancient Village or Settlement
 81.9km W 270° Segesta* Ancient Village or Settlement
 82.2km SE 142° Villa imperiale del Casale* Ancient Palace
View more nearby sites and additional images

<< Heideborn

Toros de Guisando >>

Please add your thoughts on this site

Cornwall in Prehistory

Cornwall in Prehistory

Sponsors

Auto-Translation (Google)

Translate from English into:

"Mura Pregne dolmen (Sicily)" | Login/Create an Account | 3 News and Comments
  
Go back to top of page    Comments are owned by the poster. We aren't responsible for their content.
Re: Mura Pregne dolmen (Sicily) by Andy B on Friday, 17 December 2010
(User Info | Send a Message)
Needs a long/lat location working out
[ Reply to This ]

Your Name: Anonymous [ Register Now ]
Subject:


Add your comment or contribution to this page. Spam or offensive posts are deleted immediately, don't even bother

<<< What is five plus one as a number? (Please type the answer to this question in the little box on the left)
You can also embed videos and other things. For Youtube please copy and paste the 'embed code'.
For Google Street View please include Street View in the text.
Create a web link like this: <a href="https://www.megalithic.co.uk">This is a link</a>  

Allowed HTML is:
<p> <b> <i> <a> <img> <em> <br> <strong> <blockquote> <tt> <li> <ol> <ul> <object> <param> <embed> <iframe>

We would like to know more about this location. Please feel free to add a brief description and any relevant information in your own language.
Wir möchten mehr über diese Stätte erfahren. Bitte zögern Sie nicht, eine kurze Beschreibung und relevante Informationen in Deutsch hinzuzufügen.
Nous aimerions en savoir encore un peu sur les lieux. S'il vous plaît n'hesitez pas à ajouter une courte description et tous les renseignements pertinents dans votre propre langue.
Quisieramos informarnos un poco más de las lugares. No dude en añadir una breve descripción y otros datos relevantes en su propio idioma.