Carthaginian quarries (the pools you see at left) nearby the tower of Piscinni in souith west Sardinia. The tower was built in 1500, the quarries are from the 5th to the 2nd century BC.
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This pool by the sea side at first it seems a natural formation but looking attentively one can notice how the rock was carved with tools. The carvers created a kind of basin which subsequently was filled with sea water by the big waves.
This small quarry lies in south west coast of Sardinia on the spot where a Carthaginian temple and settlement existed. The stones extracted here were used to build the temple. (About VI-III century B.C.)
The Carthaginians colonized Sardinia before the Romans.
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Situated in south Sardinia, these pools look really odd. At first they look natural but looking at them attentively one may see the trace of chisel... actually they were a Carthaginian quarry which were used to get the necessary stones to build a nearby temple.
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South Sardinia.
The tower was built in 1500 to defend a nearby tuna fish factory from the raids of the Moors.
(See other similar towers in my album "Sardinia coastal towers" you find in this page below at right.)
The pool you see in foreground is a Carthaginian quarry which the waves filled with water.
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This is a cliff near Teulada, in south west Sardinia. This part of the coast is completely deserted and so the presence of this cross is really mysterious.
But in ancient times it had to be populated... that kind of pool you can see in front of the sea was a quarry dug by the Carthaginians who probably built a temple nearby now disappeared. But probably its stones should have been utilized to build the tower of Piscinni in 1500, as often they did in the far past.
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Strano posto per una croce...
questa è la costa immediatamente a sud di Capo Piscinni, dove sorge l'omonima torre, in territorio comunale di Teulada. Questo tratto di costa è completamente deserto, senza insediamenti umani e quindi la presenza di questa croce è misteriosa... sepoltura o luogo di culto?
Ma in tempi antichi questa zona doveva essere popolata, nella foto si può vedere una specie di vasca intagliata nella roccia proprio di fronte al mare: era una cava punica. A che pro?
Non ci sono rovine puniche nelle vicinanze, così propbabilmente, se i cartaginesi avevano costruito qualcosa qui, forse un tophet come nella vicina Tuerrredda, le sue pietre devono essere state utilizzate nel 1500 per la costruzione della Torre.
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