Getting there
How to get to Ghar il-Kbir
Ghar il-Kbir (the Great Cave), on a hill south of Buskett Forest, was inhabited from prehistoric times until 1835. It is not one cave, but consists of several caves, which were used as cave houses. More interesting though is the impressive concentration of cart ruts around the cave. Thought to date from Neolithic times, these enigmatic tracks or parallel grooves are hewn into the rock and criss-cross one another. No one really knows how they were made nor what they were used for. They may have been for transporting top soil since the Islands would already have been largely deforested and rather barren by late prehistoric times. However, at other sites similar tracks seem to end aimlessly at cliff tops. The number of cart ruts at this particular site led to it being named after London's busiest railway junction.
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Ghar il-Kbir - Tourist Infoline: 99730000 {4008}
'Clapham Junction' - Tourist Infoline: 99730000 {4009}
'Clapham Junction' - Tourist Infoline: 99730000 {4009}
Info.
The site is always open and there is no fee to enter.
Bus 81 gets you clossets to it.
It is lovely to walk there from Buskett Forest.
Is that a troglodyte!?