Silanus - Santa Sabina

This place just south of Silanus, named "Santa Sabina" (aka "Santa Sarbana"), seems to be "Sardinia in a nutshell". Here are a nuraghe, a "byzantine" church, a holy well, two "Tombs of the Giants" and foundations of a prehistoric village. And somehow all these structures seem "interconnected".

This is the entrance to the "pozzo sacro", the holy well named "Cherchizzu", about 400m north of the Byzantine rotunda and the nurhage (previous uploads) - and once part of the Bronze Age settlement.

The well was dicovered in 1881, but soon after forgotten and abandoned for many decades. Meanwhile excavations have been undertaken and the monument is dated to 12th to 10th century bC.

The well is completely beneath the ground. The corridor, that runs down is about 5 m long. It looked very narrow - and so I did not dare to enter the tholos down below.