The Nuraghe Majori is one of the best preserved Nuraghi in Tempio Pausania. It is part of the mixed Nuraghi, where the architectural features of the Corridor Nuraghe and the Tholos Nuraghe blend into a single monument.
Built on a granite dome, it is constructed in polyhedric stonework achieved using roughly cut large and medium sized blocks. From the entrance with architrave with a small by-pass window above, you can access a corridor which cuts longways through the wall mass. The entrances with architraves open up on the right and left of the corridor and lead into two uneven ovoid rooms. The two rooms have a false cupola roof. From April to November, the room on the right of the corridor is home to a colony of small bats (Rhinolophus hipposideros).
The corridor leads into the semicircular courtyard where the stairway to the upper floor starts. The remains of another room originally closed with tholos are preserved here.
Ceramic material used on a daily basis was uncovered during excavation work: bowls, baking trays, saucepans, ollas and flat-bottom cups. These materials prove the monument was used for living purposes together with the control of supplies and the surrounding area. The analysis of ceramic types found in the Nuraghe Majori, based on relative chronology, offers a context placed between the later stages of the Middle Bronze Age and the Iron Age (1400-900 B.C.).
