The Giants' Tomb of Murartu dates from the Nuragic period. There are many of examples of these remarkable sites throughout Sardinia.
These stone colossi were used for collective burials. In fact, it is thought that the remains of the dead were placed there once they had become skeletons or that, very probably, the corpses had been stripped of flesh before burial. In these places, the whole community went to pay tribute to their dead and celebrate the funerary rites.
The outline of the layout of the Giants’ Tomb of Murartu can only be partly discerned. In the outer perimeter, there are still some blocks from the left side while, in the rectangular chamber inside, only the end part can be made out.
At the entrance, there is an upturned arched stele almost three metres high in an oblique position, the thickness of which decreases towards the top, with the decorated side exposed but in a poor condition. The stele, in the lower panel, has a trapezoidal shape.
Its peculiarity lies in the absence of a door in the lower part and the presence of a cornice in relief but the existence of an unframed element with a door, as in the classic bilithic stele, cannot be ruled out.
The enormous stone that marked the entrance laid directly on jambs or, perhaps, on an architrave, probably bestowed greater height and, so, greater grandeur to the tomb.