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Post date: 20/11/2014
Directions:
500 m northwest of the old Rietduin farmhouse.
500 m northwest of the old Rietduin farmhouse.
It is an oval, wind-deflated hollow lying on the coastal face of the dune ridge. The erosion has exposed Middle or Upper Pleistocene ferruginous sand and some calcrete nodules amongst which arc stone artefacts, and fossilized bone. The artefacts consist of silcrete, shale, quartz and quartzite flakes, cores and chunks which arc indistinguishable from those of the Middle or Late Stone Age. They do not appear to be directly associated with the bone. On the southern edge of the depression is a scatter of fossilized bone fragments; to the cast of this was found a portion of hyaena mandible. On the northern side is the exfoliating remains of an elephant tusk . This suggests that the human activity represented by artefacts is only a part of the activities represented in the prehistoric landscape.