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Post date: 17/06/2015
Alternate Code & Name: NG 2
A series of dome-shaped bedrock outcrops around which are clustered an abundance of Ceramic Later Stone Age artefacts (stone artefacts, pottery, ostrich eggshell). Elongated grinding grooves were noted on the outcropping bedrock. These features occur on other similar sites in the wider landscape. Hollows in the bedrock occur, which hold water for a time after rains (known locally as !Gorras the Nama word for these natural reservoirs). The sites probably represent repeated short-duration encampments by transhumant herders or hunter-gatherers with pottery, probably mainly in the last millennium.
Transhumant farmers of the colonial era evidently used such sites in similar manner (leaving broken glass and porcelain).