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<< Our Photo Pages >> Sa Testa Pozzo sacro - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Italy in Sardinia (Sardegna)

Submitted by AlexHunger on Saturday, 25 March 2006  Page Views: 7008

Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Sa Testa Pozzo sacro Alternative Name: Sa Testa Sacred well
Country: Italy Region: Sardinia (Sardegna) Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Olbia  Nearest Village: Olbia
Latitude: 40.934590N  Longitude: 9.546020E
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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4Short walk on a footpath
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Sa Testa Pozzo Sacro
Sa Testa Pozzo Sacro submitted by AlexHunger : Bronze age sacred well near Olbia Port. Votive offering up to the Roman age where found. The circular area had benches and are assumed to have been used for ritual purposes. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Holy Well in Sardegna

Sacred nuragic well within structure facing west dating to Bronze age (1200-1000 BCE). There is a round structure in front with seats in the foundations. Between two hills with stream running towards sea. 33 Meters altitude. Votive objects found. A rectangular ditch of unknown origin has been built on East, North and West side.

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Sa Testa Pozzo sacro
Sa Testa Pozzo sacro submitted by SolarMegalith : Pozzo Sacro Nuragico Sa Testa - on the right you can see a altar which was used for puting offerings. The monument itself was discovered by a group of shephards who were looking for water and it was excavated several times. The excavations brought artefacts from periods since nuragic one to Roman. (photo taken on September 2009) (Vote or comment on this photo)

Sa Testa Pozzo sacro
Sa Testa Pozzo sacro submitted by SolarMegalith : Atrium and stairs leading to the 6,81 m high chamber with a sacred well. There is onsiderable evidence that the site was used also through Roman times (photo taken on September 2009). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Sa Testa Pozzo sacro
Sa Testa Pozzo sacro submitted by SolarMegalith : Complex of Pozzo Sacro Sa Testa - view from the NE. 17 steps lead to the chamber with a sacred well (photo taken on September 2009). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Sa Testa Pozzo sacro
Sa Testa Pozzo sacro submitted by SolarMegalith : Pozzo Sacro Sa Testa - view for the round court, atrium and entrance to the chamber with holy well (photo taken on September 2009). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Sa Testa Pozzo sacro
Sa Testa Pozzo sacro submitted by AlexHunger : Holly well in Olbia, Sardinia (Sardegna) Photoshoped plan.

Sa Testa Pozzo Sacro
Sa Testa Pozzo Sacro submitted by AlexHunger : Bronze age sacred well near Olbia Port. Votive offering up to the Roman age where found. The circular area had benches and are assumed to have been used for ritual purposes.

Sa Testa Pozzo Sacro
Sa Testa Pozzo Sacro submitted by AlexHunger

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A hidden oasis – Pozzo sacro Sa Testa, Sardinia by Andy B on Thursday, 25 June 2015
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Many of Sardinia’s great sacred wells are found in romantic lost landscapes, dry arid fields or high in mountainous regions. However, one of the island’s most significant and evocative is found a few feet away from a busy main road, tucked behind an industrial estate and often overshadowed by the multiply planes which fly in and out of Olbia airport from across Europe. This well enclosed in a quiet oasis is that of Sa Testa, well sign posted from Olbia.

Discovery and artefacts

The site’s discovery was in the 1930s by shepherds seeking out water supplies. It was subsequently excavated by Franceso Soldati in 1938 and subsequently restored in 1969 by Ercole Contu. The work revealed bronze objects, such as dagger hilt, bracelet, ring as well as fragments of cup. These pieces placed the date of the site in line with the other sacred springs of the island, around Bronze Age end, 1200-900 BC.

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https://insearchofholywellsandhealingsprings.wordpress.com/2015/06/19/a-hidden-oasis-pozzo-sacro-sa-testa-sardinia/

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Re: Sa Testa Pozzo sacro by Anonymous on Monday, 08 July 2013
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The temple consists of a large circular courtyard called "boardroom", a hallway, a staircase and a room in "tholos" that captures the spring vein. The courtyard (8.30 x 7.41 m) - paved and traversed by an underlying channel for the flow of water - is bounded by a circular wall (width 0.94 m; alt. 0.30 m) that present along the entire development a counter-seat (width 0.69 m / 0.39, alt. 0.45 m) can be reached through an open entrance on the N side and with small scale with 4 steps.

The actual temple well - built with blocks of schist, granite and trachyte, carefully blanks - retains part of the vestibule, achieved at a lower level than the courtyard. The environment, trapezoidal (length 2.62 m, width. Max. 2.62 m), has seats along the walls and the floor crossed by a paved gutter. On the bottom side opens up the stairs with 17 steps, leading to the spring. The space-scale has a roof made of granite slabs arranged in a flat arch height scale (playing a sort of inverted scale). The room of the pit, circular (diam. 1.25 m, alt. 5.25 m), is built with boulders arranged in regular rows 28 projecting. At the base is a platform (0.35 m) built around a circular depression (diam. 0.50 m) from which flows the spring vein. Above the cell hypogeic stood a room "Tholos", which will keep for a maximum residual of 1.65 m. The temple is dating from the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age.

History of the excavations
The site was the subject of archaeological investigation in 1938 by the Superintendence for Archaeological Heritage and in 1996 the building was restored.

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