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A small, informal cemetery with approximately 40 graves was identified here. The cemetery was situated approximately 30m to the north of a ploughed and planted maize field. The cemetery was identified in a wattle plantation. The graves were placed in six unequal lines next to each other and all were orientated from west to east. Some of the graves had rectangular shaped cement outlines as dressings with cement headstones. Some of the graves only had cemented headstones with informal mounds of packed rocks and soil as dressings. Some of these headstones were inscribed with names and dates which indicated that the majority of burials occurred during the 1940’s up to the 1960’s. The rest of the graves had informal dressings which consisted of elongated oval shaped mounds of packed rocks and soil. The cemetery was not maintained and the graves were overgrown with dense vegetation. The dense vegetation made the identification of the exact number of graves difficult and the number of graves was estimated to be approximately 40.