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2724DB/ Solar/ Farm Frankfort No 672/ Site V03
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Post date: 15/10/2020
Site Comments:
Low-density scatter of MSA material The site is in a dry pan and characterized by the typical Savanna Biome and more specifically in the Ghaap Plateau Vaalbosveld Group. The size of the pan is about 50 m2. The find spots varied from Later Stone Age (LSA) scatters consisting of flakes, chips and some cores manufactured from fine-grained quartzite, chalcedony, and cryptocrystalline (ccs) material; Middle Stones Age (MSA) lithics consisting of cores, chips and flakes with a low occurrence of formal tools. The majority of the material utilised were either lideanite that occur in the form of medium sized boulders or round washed pebbles in the area or coarse-grained quartzite that occur as sporadic outcrops. Earlier Stone Age (ESA) lithics found at some of these finds spots consisted of a hand axe, cleavers and large flakes. Most of the lithics were either rolled or heavily weathered with patination evident on many of the lithics.
