Tag: cave house

A partly open rock-cut area below the Mellieħa Cross, possibly once forming a sixth cave with a collapsed roof and a window-like opening.

A narrow inner corridor inside the fifth cave below the Mellieħa Cross, showing worked limestone walls and a confined rock-cut passage.

A narrow passage inside the fifth cave below the Mellieħa Cross, showing worked limestone walls and a deeper corridor beyond.

Inside the fifth cave below the Mellieħa Cross, showing a chamber with narrow rock-cut corridors.

The entrance to the fifth cave below the Mellieħa Cross, reached by stone steps and set into the limestone hillside.

A dark entrance in a stone wall leading into the fourth cave below the Mellieħa Cross.

Rock-cut stairs leading through vegetation toward another cave area below the Mellieħa Cross.

The second chamber of the third cave below the Mellieħa Cross, with partitions suggesting later use as an animal shelter.

A narrow rock-cut corridor inside the first chamber of the third cave below the Mellieħa Cross.

The first chamber of the third cave below the Mellieħa Cross, with cut niches, rough limestone walls and visible later debris.

The entrance to the third cave below the Mellieħa Cross, with rough stonework, timber supports and a dark rock-cut interior.

A rocky passage along the hillside leading toward the entrance of a third cave below the Mellieħa Cross.

A cut passage inside the second cave below the Mellieħa Cross, leading down into a lower chamber.

The first chamber of the second cave below the Mellieħa Cross, showing worked limestone walls and a dark interior space.

The entrance to a second cave below the Mellieħa Cross, partly hidden among limestone rock and wild vegetation.

The third chamber of the first cave below the Mellieħa Cross, showing worked limestone walls and a dark enclosed interior.

A small cut opening inside the first cave below the Mellieħa Cross, leading into a darker third chamber.

Looking out from the second chamber of the first cave below the Mellieħa Cross through a rough limestone opening.

Inside the first cave below the Mellieħa Cross, looking toward a second chamber with stone walls and cut rock features.

Inside a rock-cut cave below the Mellieħa Cross, showing carved niches, stone walls and weathered limestone surfaces.

Another cave entrance below the Mellieħa Cross, framed by limestone rock and wild Mediterranean vegetation.

The first cave entrance below the Mellieħa Cross, carved into the weathered limestone hillside.

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