fitzcoraldo

St Paul’s Island from the Bugibba Temple. This may indicate that the island was a significant place long before the christian era and echoes the relationship between the temples of Hagar Qim & Mnajdra and the island of Filfla

Heritage Malta notice board explaining the equinox and solstice alignments of the temples.

The top figure is obviously a bull.
The lower figure has been interpretted as a sow feeding her piglets.

Bull Carving

A quern re-used in the walls of Ta’ Hagrat

The old and the new

The ‘sacraficial table‘

There are a number of these perforations arouind the edge of the ‘sacraficial table’. There have been interpretted as places where the sacrifice was tethered to the stone.

This carving on this stone is difficult to see, it has been interpretted as representing the goddess.

A naturally eroded hollow in the granite has been used to hold one of the upright supports.

The houses of the living overlook the house of the dead?

There are a number of these large stones on the hillside behind the dolmen. A couple of them appear to have smaller stones ‘propping’ them up.

Handsome Timmo provides scale

In this part of the island, the monument builders seem to have a fondness for stones with a pink tinge to them and also stones that have water-worn cups. The example is on one of the flanker stones