Ginwi Traditional Geocache

Lying to the right of the road from Zejtun to Marsaxlokk stood the prehistoric temple site of Hal Ginwi, now destroyed. Excavated by A.V. Laferla in 1917, Themistocles Zammit interpreted the site as the remains of a possible domestic dwelling context. John Evans suggests that the megalithic remains are more akin to the remains of a dual temple site. The site is characterised by a set of sub-rectangular rooms (5 in number) enclosed by a megalithic wall. The floors were mainly paved in hard stone or covered in beaten earth (torba). Flint and chert remains were scarce, but pottery finds were plentiful. The pottery dated mainly to the Ggantija and Tarxien phase with a very few sherds from the Tarxien cemetery phase. (Source: National Inventory of the Cultural Property of the Maltese Islands - Superintendence of Cultural Heritage of Malta)