LOCATION:

The taula of "Torralba d'en Salort" is 2,9 km from Alaior by the highway that leads to Cala en Porter from this town, aside of the highway itself, on the right going in direction to the aforementioned creek.

Alaior.

Typical exemplar of taula in very good conservation state. The stone-support, nailed in the rock by means of a furrow opened in this, is lightly narrower in the inferior part that in the superior one and presents a marked vertical nerve in the rear face. The stone-capital, in form of overturned pyramid frustum, is inserted in the stone-support by means of the usual rectangular rabbet.

On the left of the monument, we see a pillar of small dimensions with a small altar leaned against it in its front face. Aside, the excavators found a figure of a bull, in brass, and two Punic terracottas that represented the goddess Tanit.

The building that surrounds the "taula" presents a plan with the characteristic horseshoe form, and the door, with a step, opens in the rectilinear side. The walls show several niches and also monolithic pillars more or less embedded that define a kind of polylobulate structure.

There are remains of blazes in front of the taula itself and to the east and the northeast.

Stone-support:

• Height: 4.30 m.
• Width: 2.39-2.50 m.
• Thickness: 0.41-0.60 m.

Stone-capital:

• Length: 3.70-3.80 m.
• Width: 1.05-1.20 m.
• Thickness: 0.70 m.

The excavations carried out between 1974 and 1982 for M. Fernández-Miranda and W. Waldren inside the precinct gave four occupation levels:

Level I: medieval occupation dated around the conquest of the island by Alfons III (1286 A.D.)
Level II: imperial Roman time.
Levels III and IV: Talayotic occupation - with some radiocarbon calibrated dates of the 997, 994, 866, 470, 255 and 228 B.C., obtained of coal and bones of animals and indicating an use more or less continuous from the Talayotic II (1000-800 B.C.) to the Talayotic IV (450-123 B.C.) -.

The urban nucleus of which was part was, without a doubt, a great village, as it is demonstrate by its numerous constructions: a "talayot" owith a circular plan on the top, it seems, of an artificial platform, the remains of another, the "taula", a "columned room", diverse "hypogeums", among them one with patio, etc. Inside the site itself, negotiated today by the "Fundació Illes Balears", there are also the remains, very damaged, of an old hermitage, which demonstrates a long occupation of the place.

Not very far, it is the well of "Na Patarrà", that should be the one that gave the water to the village. Near, it also is the "naveta of intermediate pattern" of "Torralbet".