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First impressions of the cave complex. |
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Exploration & Discoveries in Ghar Mirdum |
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| The way down the cliffs to the cave entrance. | A helping hand on the way out of the labyrinth. | Passing yet another sackful of pottery and artifacts. | Climbing up a wall to secure a rope for the cavers to proceed to the upper levels. | |
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| The author exploring yet another clearing between boulders | Vincent Bugeja emerging from a successful dig. | The Curator examining a large pot rim in the midst of remains of a fire. | Francis Mallia examining the charcoal remains of a fire after removal of the potsherd. | |
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| The precarious rope-ladder ascent from The Kitchen. | Yet another narrow passage from chamber to chamber. | This boulder was removed to produce another day's exploration in a chamber full of artefacts. | Franz and Bernard discussing the best way to bring out the kit. | |
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| Descending to 'The Kitchen' from the upper levels. | Exiting via East entrance late evening after a day's dig. | |||
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| A well deserved tea break, appropriately in The Kitchen. | A new pot emerging from where it was left some 1,450 years BC. | A deposit of pottery shards as found, probably smashed by the boulder. | A pair of feet disappearing in The Squeeze, the 9 inch wide crack in the rocks. | |
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| A phone call from The Kitchen to the surface. | Delicately handling a small pot emerging from a narrow chamber. | A long reach under a huge rockfall produces yet more broken pots. | The Curator, Francis Mallia examins a large amount of artefacts. | |
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| Vincent Sciberras in a tight corner picking out pottery from under a rockfall. | A view of the other, lower, side of The Squeeze. Here you climbed down... | ...a long rope ladder, and a short walk to the larger of the Chambers, The Kitchen. | Emerging from the complex after a hard day's dig. | |
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| A feeling of relief when you reach the bottom of a swinging rope ladder. | A cave explorer cum archeologist emerging into a beautiful sunset over the Mediterranean sea, on a mountain of fallen rocks making up the 'Rdum' below Dingli Cliffs. | |||
