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talayot

talayot [MC].
A massive tower built of dry-stone walling found in the Balearic Islands of the western Mediterranean, similar to the NURAGHE of Sardinia. Talayots (the local word for ‘watch-towers’) were built in a range of forms with circular, square, and stepped examples. Most have a central chamber and are of Bronze Age date, broadly 1500–500 BC. Many became the focus of a small village of dry-stone-built houses.

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