LOCATION:

Near the highway Maó-Ciutadella, to the left of this in the latitude of the kilometre 40.300. A parking is prepared to leave the automobile, because it is the more visited monument in the island.

Ciutadella.

Dug and restored in 1975, it is the construction that, for its evident similitude with a ship (a "nave" in Spanish) face down, gave the name to this type of buildings, so much if they are "funerary" as if they are "habitable".

Its plan is of elongated horseshoe, its apse is lightly pointed (it seems really a prow) and its facade (the stern) it is almost plane, a little concave.

You accede to its interior for an almost square door located exactly in the centre of the facade, on a step. In the interior, a square vestibule gives access to a ground floor and a superior one. The door of the inferior chamber presents a doorcase formed by three cyclopean stones and in the apse, in this chamber itself, we find a kind of a bench. As much the ground floor as the superior one are covered with big flagstones placed horizontally.

The layer inferior of both walls, exterior and interior, are formed with the help of big blocks on which other smaller ones well worked are leaned.

Among the materials found inside the construction, we highlight the brass pieces, especially the ornaments of personal use (little rings, biconic tears, etc.) and the awls. Its excavation also provided a triangular button of perforation in V and fragments of three globular vessels.

• External length: 13.60 m.
• Length of the corridor: 1.37 m.
• Length of the inferior chamber: 7.25 m.
• Length of the superior chamber: 7.10 m.
• External maximum width: 6.40 m.
• Width of the facade: 5.85 m.
• Width of the inferior chamber: 1.87 m.
• Width of the superior chamber: 1.90.
• Width of the corridor: 1.27 m.
• External height: 4.50 m.
• Height of the corridor: 3.35 m.
• Height of the inferior chamber: 2.25 m.
• Height of the superior chamber: 0.85 m.

The three radiocarbon dates that we have (870±40, 830±35 and 740±35 B.C., or, what is the same thing: 957, 914 and 827 B.C., after calibrating them), obtained starting from human bones of its interior, demonstrate the existence of a continuous use of the sepulchre along the whole Talayotic II (1000-800 B.C.), although for its constructive type it probably dates of the Talayotic I (1400-1000 B.C.)

Near the little path that leaves highway for the naveta, we see, by left-hand, a cave, a hypogeum of rectangular door with an external court and three "capades de moro" - literally, "three head butts of Moorish" - (to the left of the door). Its chamber, after entering in the interior, is more or less circular, with a subchamber of small size in the opposed side to the door and two big columns of square section that form a whole with the rock of the floor and of the roof. To the right, as one enters, we can see two horizontal niches.