Centre for Resilience and Socio-Emotional Health, University of Malta
Abstract
This section summarises the archaeological results and the conclusions to be drawn
from them about the site of Ħal Millieri. The concluding section discusses the
significance of the excavations for the history of the casale and for Maltese
historiography, and their relationship to the development of medieval church
architecture in Malta.
The excavations have added a certain amount to what was known about the
site of Ħal Millieri prior to the building of its churches and to the first written
documentation in 1419/20. The earliest archaeological features are admittedly not
very informative. Beneath the church of the Visitation some shallow channels cut
into the rock were clearly man-made, but they produced no dating evidence nor
were they uncovered over a sufficient area for their purpose to be demonstrable.peer-reviewe
