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Post date: 13/03/2015
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The site is an Iron Age settlement. Sisal and aloes are found growing on some sections of the walls. Although this might be a natural occurrence, it is also known that in many cases such plants were deliberately planted on settlement walls in order to make them higher and more impenetrable.The large outer walls are constructed by stacking two parallel rows of stone, with the intervening space then filled in with smaller stones and soil . The second category of smaller walls simply consists of stones stack upon each other, without the filling found in the first category of walls. The main settlement area was in the middle of the site, as it is possible to distinguish the remains of different structures here. At least one rectangular and two circular structures can be identified. Doorways can be distinguished and the floors of the structures consists of a grey, course grained material, smoothed over with clay, which was then covered with what is now a yellowish material, in all probability a layer of dung.A cattle kraal is located on the south western side of the site, with a kgoro or gathering place for men next to that. Other features that can also be distinguished on the site include fire places and ash middens. The artefacts found on the site all date to the recent past and include the remains of tins, bottles and potsherds. The tins range from bully beef and canned fruit type of tins, to paint and paraffin type of tins. Most are rusted beyond further identification. Some of the bottles have date stamps on the bottom , whereas others show the typical scar made by the pontil on the bottom of the bottle, dating it to the early part of the 20th century. The potsherds, although very fragmented, are typical of contemporary Sotho pottery, showing incisions in bands on the shoulder of the pot, alternately coloured red and black.

 
 

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