The Archaeological Complex of Nuraghe Nolza is located 8 km from Meana Sardo at an elevation of 739 metres above sea level, perched on the highest rise (Cuccuru Nolza) of a schist plateau (Su Pranu).
The complex quadrilobate-plan nuraghe, whose central tower reaches 13 metres in height, dominates the surrounding cluster of huts, which occupies an area estimated at 2.5 hectares. Nuraghe Nolza was built partly using schist blocks laid in a sub-filar arrangement and partly using porphyry blocks laid in polygonal masonry.
Archaeological investigations, begun in 1994, have made it possible to free the structures of the quadrilobate from the massive collapses that had partially concealed the masonry. The Nolza site was already frequented at the beginning of the island’s Middle Bronze Age, around the 16th–15th centuries B.C., and remained in use until the 12th century B.C.
The most recent excavations have focused on several interior rooms of the monument, inside which numerous finds from the Recent Bronze Age, as well as animal bones, have been uncovered. Among the most interesting finds is a small jug dating to the Final Bronze Age.
