SiteRecordings

Early Iron Age Pit at Inanda Dam: The pit is situated in the side of a bank 1.25m high, left after an area of ground 165 paces by 104 wide had been stripped of its top soil. Very little damage had been done to the pit as the bulldozer blade only just scraped the one side and in so doing revealed a few pottery sherds.
After the contents of the pit had been removed it left a hole about a metre deep (not including the overlying soil) and the diameter at its widest was 0.75m.
Contents: the upper 60 cm contained a mass of broken pottery packed tightly together in a soft light brown sand. Towards the top of the pit there were also some pieces of broken grindstone, tuyere and a little slag. Other items found were landsnail shell, a few pieces of charcoal (sample taken) and a human tooth (adult front upper). The last 25 cm was filled mainly with a fine light grey sand which appeared ot have a lot of ash in it. There was also some pottery from which I was able to fit together two almost complete pots, and quite a lot of bone.
SECOND PIT: The remains of a second pit were found within 30 metres of the first pit from which a portion of a small pot, a large bone and a charcaol sample were recoverdd.
BURIED SMALL POTS: Four small pots without rims or bottoms were found buried in and just above the second bank. No bone but a little charcoal was found associated with these pots (see sketch of area in site record file). Pots 1C and 1E were not removed. A piece of broken grindstone together with a fair amount of pottery was also found in the second bank which could have been part of another pit.

In the middle of September some rain fell over the site and revealed a fair amount of bone and pottery, where small section of topsoil still remained. A patch of red baked clay was also revealed.

Early Stone Age artefacts were seen in mounds of soil left by the bulldozer.