Bruncu Madugui
Bruncu Madugui
The first news dates back to the nineteenth century: the Marmora, the Angius and the Centurione indicated the technical construction features, the plan and the strategic location.
The first excavation campaign was conducted in 1962 by Giovanni Lilliu. The investigations of the village continued by Gabriella Puddu and Alessandro Usai. The study of the remains of the animal has allowed us to reconstruct the local fauna and the cooking methods of the meat. In 1992, U. Badas published his study of the findings. In 2022 the Superintendence and the Municipality started the restoration of the main monument, finding a bronze dagger.
The main building is difficult to understand because of the collapses and the incompleteness of the excavations: it has the appearance of a wide, low and apparently full platform. It has a plan almost reniform, with the bastion concaved-convex outline. It has an entrance on the SE side which leads into a staircase, protected to the right by a niche, at the exit there is an irregular corridor from which you can access two rooms of elliptical shape, rather poorly preserved.
From the last opening at the bottom, a further corridor leads to a second entrance originally opened on the NE side. The building is dated to the Middle Bronze.
The settlement consists of a dozen separate nuclei and some isolated buildings. The first group consists of a set of fourteen huts, closely linked by common walls or short curtains. The entrance of the agglomerate leads into a paved courtyard. The cooking of food had to take place in individual rooms and the huts are similar, for architectural conformation and materials found. The settlement is dated only to the Bronze Finale.
