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Middelburg Destruction Permit, Inxuba Yethemba Local Municipality

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This facility will construct concrete panels for the towers for approved wind farms around the nearby town of Noupoort. The development site is located about 6 km south of Middelburg on Portion 11 of the Farm Bultfontyn 128, Middelburg, Eastern Cape Province, and will occupy a footprint of approximately 12 hectares in the southern portion of the previously proposed development area.

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Eleven stone artefact scatter sites were recorded. These included MID2_1, MID4 – MID7, MID9 – MID10 which ranged from Middle (Acheulian / Fauresmith Industries) to Later Stone Age stone artefacts made on fine-grained hornfels raw material. These scatters occurred predominantly in disturbed ex situ contexts and the Middle Stone Age artefacts were mostly weathered from prolonged surface exposure. These sites were rated as ‘Not Conservation Worthy’ (NCW) and no further mitigation was recommended. Of the eleven sites, two sites (MID8 and MID11), were rated as IIIB (medium – high significance). These two scatters included concentrations of Later Early Stone Age and Early Middle Stone Age stone artefacts (Acheulian / Fauresmith Industries) mostly in disturbed ex situ contexts and substantially weathered from prolonged surface exposure. MID8 and MID11 lies within the development footprint and destruction (of integrity of the resource via removal) will be unavoidable. Further mitigation recommended formal recording, collection of key surface finds and application for a destruction permit. The remains of two stone packed structures (BULT_SP1 and BULT_SP2, current study sites) were observed within the development footprint during the current study.

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Thursday, November 17, 2022 - 12:50

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20147

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Archaeological Assessment , Middelburg EC

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