Sa Cudia Cremada

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Sa Cudia Cremada is the name of an archaeological site located in a land property called in the same way, in the outskirts of the city of Mahón, the capital of Menorca (Balearic Islands, Spain).

The remains which form part of the site belonged to the Talaiotic culture from the Bronze and Iron Ages, although the site continued being occupied during the first centuries of the Roman conquest of the island, since Roman materials can be found on the surface that date back to the first phase of the Roman occupation of Menorca (end of the 2nd and 1st centuries BC). The site could have been reoccupied during the Middle Ages, as is suggested by the location of numerous fragments of Muslim pottery which are scattered around the surface too. The site presents a great state of preservation as several of its structures show. The most significant ones are three talayots or truncated-shape towers built with the cyclopean construction technique, the sanctuary, several hypogea, a large pit possibly for the storage of goods, and other remains, such as a stretch of a wall, among others. The easternmost talayot has an oval layout and its base is 19 meters in diameter. Its façade is somewhat concave and...