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A History of Art in Sardinia and J ui>. ea. of niiraghs are found unmistakable remains of walls, for the most part loosely put together and hidden by detritus and undergrowth, supposed to have surrounded vast enclosures having niiraghs as centres. 1 Moreover, in the immediate vicinity of important towers, as the Teti and Losa, for example (Fig. '20), minor buildings, described in the plans and letterpress as smaller nuraghs, are met with, in general arrangement not differing from the more important The Ortu Nuragli, restored by Ch. Chipiez. structures, save that they were not vaulted, that the roof was either pointed and made with branches of trees, or that it was a ceiling supported by beams, over which were spread layers of beaten earth ; 2 the walls perpendicular, and built with stones of ordinary size. 3 These dwellings, known in the country under the 1 La Marmora, Voyage en Sardaigne, pp. 52, 71, 82, 84, Plate VIII., fig. 2A. 2 This mode of roofing is still practised in the uplands of the Italian peninsula, as well as in some of the Greek islands. — Translator. 8 These observations belong to M. Gouin, who compares such buildings with the oviti, " sheds " used by native woodmen.