SiteRecordings

A few quartz outcrops with evidence of quarrying for stone were seen in the study areas for all three corridors. Two archaeological sites already excavated by Orton (2016a) in mitigation of a solar energy facility were relocated in the eastern part of the Alternative 1 corridor. Both were LSA sites located alongside bedrock outcrops, one of which also had a waterhole present. Both had ground patches on the bedrock. The finds from these sites included many stone artefacts, pottery (including lugs at both sites), ostrich eggshell fragments (including one flask mouth fragment, ostrich eggshell beads, a glass bead and an unusual backed artefact made on green bottle glass. The glass items date to the colonial era and very likely in this area that would have meant after about 1700. The bead is a German annular bead manufactured after about 1880 (Francis 1988) which shows very recent precolonial occupation of the area. These excavated sites would not require further work.