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This site is situated approximately 400 metres south of the Great Fish River and about the same distance west of the Botha’s River Dam (general GPS reading: 33.07.36,54S; 26.29.41,20E). It is located on a relatively flat orange alluvial sand plain with a gentle slope towards the dam. The area is well covered mainly with short bushes and shrubs. The archaeological visibility was good and a few stone tools were observed outside the perimeter of the area demarcated for the construction of the lodge. These included two Earlier Stone Age hand axes (dating between 1,4 million and 250 000 years old), a Middle Stone Age core (dating between 250 000 and 30 000 years old) and two Later Stone Age flakes dating younger than 30 000 years old. Earlier and Middle Stone Age stone tools are found throughout the region and the Albany Museum houses a large collection from the Grahamstown area. The stone tools were in secondary context and not associated with any other archaeological material and are therefore of low cultural significance.