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Post date: 20/11/2014
This site is typical of a Late Stone Age coastal site shell midden and lies about 1,5 km
from the northern boundary of the farm, on the calcrete ridge, directly seaward of the
windmill next to the track. The site, which consists of an extensive surface scatter of
artefacts and marine shell, extends approximately 300 m along the ridge. Some areas
of shell are in their orig.inal positions and have not been eroded. Stone artefacts
found include quartzite hammerstones, quartz, quartzite and silcrete flakes, cores and
chunks as well as a silcrete scraper (Fig. 11). A number of pieces of unidentified
bone, the shells of black mussels, limpets and white mussels (Fig. 12), as well as other
marine shells and ostrich eggshell were noted. We were later advised that a local
farmer had found two human burials in the dunes close to the site, but no further
information was available.