Sites

Prominent shelter was located on the north facing slope of sandstone hill, measuring
approximately 7m in width (E-W), by 6m in depth (N-S) and 10m in height (Plates 5a and
5b). No sediment was trapped within shelter, but a significant (predominantly) LSA
assemblage survives on the shelter floor. Artefacts include several side scrapers/ adzes,
discoidal scrapers and fragments of blade cores. These were worked from a broad range
of materials, including quartzite, hornfels, cryptocrystalline silicates (CCS) and silcrete
(Plate 6). Possible traces of yellow and red paint survive on the eastern cave wall (Plate
7).

The site would provide good shelter from the elements and a commanding view of the
Karoo plain to the north and north-east. It is likely to have been occupied regularly and
repeatedly throughout prehistory, as is suggested by the number of artefacts present and
the range of materials used in their manufacture. Although no deposit survives within the
shelter, further analysis of artefacts present would provide data on raw material
procurement of local prehistoric communities and could give an indication of the time-span
of occupation at the site.