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1872 J. Fergusson Rude Stone Monuments x. 410 The Talayots of the Balearic Islands are monuments of quite a different class from anything found in France or Algeria.

1881 R. L. Playfair Murray's Handbk. Mediterranean 490/2 All the Talayots which we shall now proceed to describe are in the immediate vicinity of Mahon.

1893 Athenæum 2 Sept. 328/1 Like the Sardinian nuragh, the talayot is essentially a vaulted tower of extra-massive proportions.

1927 F. Chamberlin Balearics xvi. 179 The main purpose of the talayots was to serve as sepulchres and monuments for the dead.

1932 M. Murray Cambr. Excav. in Minorca: Trapuco i. 6 Taulas are always found in connection with talayots, circular buildings of rough masonry.

1939 V. G. Childe Dawn European Civilization (ed. 3) xiv. 249 There is no obvious break between the ‘Copper Age’ culture represented in the rock-cut tombs and that represented in the ‘talayots’.

1950 Antiquity 24 154 ‘Taulas’..occur in association with the strong circular towers known as ‘talayots’.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XIX. 279/1 In the Balearic Isles the Bronze Age corresponds to the 2nd millennium BC and is designated ‘talayotic’ from the name of the talayot, a megalithic monument in the form of a round or quadrangular tower.

1979 Service & Bradbery Megaliths vii. 131 In Majorca, the talayotic site called Ses Paisses..includes a central talayot tower, outer walls and four megalithic gateways around the dwellings in the enclosure.