Skorba

Site on the island of Malta near Nadur Tower with a temple complex under which earlier deposits have been found. Underneath a small trefoil-shaped temple, dated c 3000-2600 BC, was a Neolithic settlement of mud-brick houses on stone foundations and an oval hut of the Ghar Dalam (impressed ware) phase (c 5000 BC). A three-apse temple of the preceding Ggantija phase (c 3600-3000 BC) was also found as well as an oval-room building of the Red Skorba phase (c 4300-4000 BC). The latter is thought to have been a shrine, precursor to later temples. The name Skorba has been give to two successive pottery styles, Grey Skorba and Red Skorba, which seem to have developed out of the impressed pottery of the Ghar Dalam phase. The pottery seems related to that of contemporary eastern Sicily.

Important site on the island of Malta, where excavations in the 1960s cast much light on the early part of the prehistoric sequence on the island. Underneath a small trefoil-shaped temple, now in poor condition (see Maltese temples) dated c3000 bc was a Neolithic settlement of mud-brick houses on stone foundations of the Ghar Dalam phase. The name Skorba has been given to two successive pottery styles, Grey Skorba and Red Skorba, which seem to have developed out of the impressed pottery of the Ghar Dalam phase and to characterize the later Neolithic phases on the site.