The Nuragic village of “Serra Orrios” is in the farmland of Dorgali and rises on the lavaplateau of Gollei.

The archaeological exploration, started in 1936, and the following restoration brought to light a settlement of about a hundred of huts, wich are explored only in part from a basi sketch local basalt stones were irregularly arranged to create circular rooms, without the need of mortar.

The planimetrical complex is remarcable because of the presence of  two “megaron” temples with enclosure, several huts in free layout and three individual groups of huts, which set up kinds of blocks made of circular rooms opening onto the same courtyard, where there are preserved the remains of  wells and cisterns. The built-up forms “insulae” that are documentedin other nuragi villages, and have been interpreted as a phase of the architectural evolution in wich a planning of the planimetrical layout of the wallstructures can be supposed, unlike the other huts, showing a rather spontaneous and less functional evolution.

Many manufactured ceramic goods are dated between the final phase of the Ancient Bronze Age and the Middle Bronze Age (1600 – 1400 a.c.), like pots of “Bonnannaro tradition (that takes the name from the town were this kinds of pottery was found for the first time in an underground tomb) or pans with imprinted as scratched decorations made with combs.

The time of more intense habitation is proved by materials of the New and Final Bronze Age, with a great number of rounded vases with cylindrical collar and handleslike overturned elbows, thick-rimmed and semicircular vessels, decorated Askos-jugs with grooves and geometrical patterns, like herring-bones or dice-points.

A special place among the manufactures goes to the tools for the production of textiles like spindles, weights for the looms, spools.

A particular sense for decoration is proved by the presence of pintaderas (terracotta stamps used to decorate bread and textiles).

Among the objects of everiday-life we can see some terracotta-stoves, landles, elegant stone to polish, pestles, millstones and matrix for melted bronze, which show an intense activity of production.

The most attractive architectural elements are without any doubt the two “megaron” temples, that could be interpreted, in the light of the newest discoveries concerning the presence of the Mycenaens on Sardinia, as a result of cultural exchanges, which have  a wide-raging confirmation exactly near the landingplaces along the oriental coast, where Micenaean fragments were found first.