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GRO292/ 001
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Post date: 09/10/2015
Common Name: Artefacts
Associated with the +90 m relict gravel in the inspected area, there was a low density of lithics clearly reflecting the occasional use of this high - grade raw material source. The artefact sample, although very small, seemed to be separable into an older group with moderate smoothing and a younger group with only light glazing, that includes a quartzite -
based specimen that could be an oval handaxe roughout. The older group is largely based on quartzite and is tentatively referred to the Early Acheulean, whereas the younger materials, which tends to be smaller, based on banded
ironstone, and which includes a certain discoid, is Middle or Late Acheulean (Beaumont & Vogel 2006). One or two cobble - based artefacts that were noted further downslope are taken to be discards or to have been flushed there over time,
as were occasional unutilzed clasts. No lithics were seen on the red sand surfaces at the very bottom end of the terrain and nowhere did I see any actual archaeological sites, palaeontological bones or structures / graves of any age.