Naveta d'Es Tudons

The Naveta d'Es Tudons is the largest and best preserved funerary naveta in Menorca [1]. The Naveta d'Es Tudons served as collective ossuary between 1200 and 750 BC [1]. The shape of the Naveta d'Es Tudons is that of a boat upside down, with the stern as its trapezoidal façade and the bow as its rounded apse [1]. Its groundplan is an elongated semicircle [1]. Externally, the edifice is 14.5 m long by 6.5 m wide and 4.55 m high but it would originally have been 6 m high [1]. The front, side walls and apse of the edifice consist of successive horizontal corbelled courses of huge rectangular or square limestone blocks dressed with a hammer and fitted together without mortar [1]. The narrow, low entrance doorway is rebated to receive a closing slab [1].