The actual area where the village of Naxxar is built offers a natural shelter to its inhabitants. In fact, in early times the village was used to reconnoitre the movements of the enemy. Because of the fact that this height has a plain which goes right down to the sea, we find that three forms of defence were built through the ages – those along the sea such as towers, trenches, batteries, redoubts and beachposts - as a physical resistance to those attempting to land from the sea; inland defences like pillboxes – to hinder the advance of the enemy if they were successful in landing; and the fortifications on high ground.
one can find that this village is mentioned in the Militia list dated 1419-1420 which shows the names of 92 men from Naxxar. According to information we have, only five more localities – Birgu (Vittoriosa), Rabat, Mdina, Zebbug and Qormi – had more men mentioned.
In the thirties it was decided to build a number of pill-boxes along the coast and inland. The cache is located very near to one of these pill-boxes, which incidentally was restored recently by the Naxxar Local Council with the help of Din l-Art Helwa Foundation is at the very top of the T'Alla U Ommu Hill and is known as Defence Post R15. It is not known exactly when this pill-box was built, but one can risk guessing that it was completed by the end of 1939, because it is mentioned in the Official List dated January 1940. The pill-box is square and is built on two levels - the top part being used by the soldiers to shoot at the enemy, whilst the lower level was used as accommodation.
The cache location is an excellent waypoint if you plan to trek from one point to the other of the Victoria Lines or as a starting location for a trek in Wied il-Ghasel (Valley of Honey) or towards Gharghur where many more caches await!
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