ROUGH STONE MONUMENTS 



is about 36 feet in length. The facade is slightly 

 concave. A low door (a) gives access through a 

 narrow slab-roofed passage (b) to a long rect- 

 angular chamber (c), the method of whose roofing 

 is uncertain. All the naus are built with their 

 facades to the south or south-east, with the excep- 

 tion of that of Benigaus Nou, the inner end of 

 which is cut in the rock, while the outer part is 

 built up of blocks as usual. The abnormal orienta- 

 tion was here clearly determined by the desire to 

 make use of the face of rock in the construction. 

 The naus seem to have been tombs, as human 

 remains have been found in them. 



Rock-tombs also occur in the islands. The 

 most remarkable are those of S. Vincent in 

 Majorca. One of these has a kind of open ante- 

 chamber cut in the rock, and is exactly similar 

 in plan to the Grotte des Fees in France (cf. 

 Fig. 12). 



Prehistoric villages surrounded by great stone 

 walls can still be traced in the Balearic Isles. 

 The houses were of two types, built either above 

 ground or below. The first are square or rect- 

 angular with rounded corners, the base course 

 occasionally consisting of orthostatic slabs. The 

 subterranean dwellings are faced with stone and 

 roofed with flat slabs supported by columns. 

 In each village was one building of a different type. 

 It stood above ground and was semicircular in 

 plan. In its centre stood a horizontal slab laid 



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