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<< Our Photo Pages >> Wied Filep A - Burial Chamber or Dolmen in Malta in Mainland

Submitted by enkidu41 on Wednesday, 20 October 2004  Page Views: 7647

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Wied Filep A
Country: Malta Island: Mainland Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Valletta  Nearest Village: Mosta
Latitude: 35.919590N  Longitude: 14.431563E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Wied Filep A
Wied Filep A submitted by enkidu41 : The larger of 2 dolmens standing about 10' apart near Mosta. The massive capstone is 12'6" long by 5'3" wide and stands nearly 5' high. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Burial Chamber (Dolmen) in Malta. By the road from Mosta to Gharghur there are 2 dolmens in a walled enclosure. This is the larger and better preserved of the two.

It has a capstone measuring 3.6 metres by 1.7 metres and 60 cms thick. It is supported on either end by stones about 1.4 metres high.
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Wied Filep A
Wied Filep A submitted by SolarMegalith : Dolmen A in Wied Filep with its 3m long capstone - view from the NE (photo taken on March 2013). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Wied Filep A submitted by SolarMegalith : Wied Filep A to the right, Wied Filep B to the left (photo taken on March 2013). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Wied Filep A
Wied Filep A submitted by SolarMegalith : Wied Filep A, the larger of two Bronze Age dolmens - view from the south (photo taken on March 2013). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Wied Filep A
Wied Filep A submitted by ShamrockStone : Wied Filep A (Vote or comment on this photo)

Wied Filep A
Wied Filep A submitted by enkidu41 : The larger of 2 dolmens standing about 10' apart near Mosta. The massive capstone is 12'6" long by 5'3" wide and stands nearly 5' high.

Wied Filep A
Wied Filep A submitted by enkidu41

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Re: Wied Filep A by ModernExplorers on Saturday, 25 March 2017
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Tal-Wej declared an Area of Archaeological Importance by davidmorgan on Wednesday, 05 October 2011
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The Malta Environment and Planning Authority (MEPA) have scheduled a large section of land known as Tal-Wej – located between the towns of Mosta and Naxxar – with the aim of ensuring the highest level of protection for the area.

Tal-Wej is an important archaeological landscape for Malta, and provides a largely pristine contextual setting for a large number of archaeological and historical features. These features, date from as far back as the Bronze Age to the Early Modern Period and overlap to form a common cultural landscape. Archaeological sites and monuments include dolmens, ‘cart-ruts’, ancient quarries, shaft and chamber tombs, vine trenches, a 16th century chapel and two corbelled huts.

Tal-Wej is an important archaeological landscape for Malta, and provides a largely pristine contextual setting for a large number of archaeological and historical features.

The Tal-Wej area is also being protected for its natural heritage as it is characterised by karst-land and is dominated by a mixture of rocky steppe and, to a lesser extent, by garigue habitat. One of the main characteristics of Tal-Wej is the number of temporary freshwater rockpools (kamenitzas), which are designated an EU priority habitat type. The south-eastern area supports one of the largest rock pools on the Maltese Islands having characteristics of a transient freshwater wetland.

The objective of this scheduling is both to protect Tal-Wej karstland as a component of the natural heritage and also to act as a development control mechanism in line with the Structure Plan for the Maltese Islands.

Through scheduling the area has now been declared as an Area of Archaeological Importance (AAI). All of the archaeological features within the site are being individually scheduled at an appropriate grade.

AAIs are associated exclusively with rural areas and are defined as areas in which a number of related, or unrelated, Sites of Archaeological Importance and/or features of archaeological value, pertaining to the same period, or not, are present and are to be preserved as the best examples of local archaeological heritage.

The karstland and network of rockpools are scheduled as a Level 2 Site of Scientific Importance and Area of Ecological Importance.

Protecting both Environment and Archaeology from unregulated planning will ensure a future for this area and shows that a holistic approach is often the best way to move forward.

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/10/2011/tal-wej-declared-an-area-of-archaeological-importance#ixzz1ZtltCWzc

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Re: Wied Filep A by Anonymous on Tuesday, 12 June 2007
It's a maltese fascination with stone. Is this real?
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