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 NURAGHS. 33 restore this king of niiraghs. It will be noticed that the central tower has a chamber on both storeys above ground, corresponding with the larger one on the ground-floor, still extant, conformably with the inner arrangement of important monuments of this class (Fig. 28). The lower storey of this building consisted formerly of ten chambers (a, b, c, d,f,g, h, i, k, I), not counting the small ■j&jar Fig. 27.— The Ortu Nitragh. Plan. La Marmora. Atlas, Plate XIV. cells of the central hall (d) ; four inner courts, one of which very small (c), were connected with each other by eleven apertures, whilst four doorways led outside. The circumference was about 148 metres. Thus it is seen that the narrow space between the central block and the outer wall, with towers at stated distances surrounding the larger nuraghs, was occupied by real courts. 1 Close to scores 1 The same disposition occurs in the Oes Nuragh (La Marmora, Voyage en Sar- daigne, p. 79, plan du rez-de-chaussée). See also the Majori Nuragh, p. 96, Plate XIV. fig. 2. VOL. I. D