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Everywhere on Malta, you find so-called "cart ruts"—prehistoric ruts in stone. There are usually pairs of ruts running in parallel. It's not really known what they were made for, or how, but it is generally assumed that they are from the bronze age, which means younger than the megalithic temples, and their locations seem to be correlated with bronze age settlements. Clapham Junction is one area in which there are particulary many and diverse cart ruts, crossing each other but also branching off each other. Like a prehistoric railway network, except inverted

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