The temple continued to be used during the Tarxien Cemetery phase, since pottery shards from that era have been found.

Most other temples face the south or south-east, but in the case of Tal-Qadi, this would not have been possible since there is a steep slope in that direction.

[3] The scattered remains of the temple, spread out on an upper and a lower field, were discovered by Henry Sant, a government civil engineer, in 1916.

According to Zammit, years before the identification of the temple, the tenant of the site had destroyed a group of upright stones.

[4] During the early excavations, a broken globigerina limestone slab showing five sections separated by lines, and incised with star-like figures and a crescent shape in the middle was found.