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Post date: 19/11/2014
Common Name: Plankiesbaai 3-PL3
This site is situated at the Plankiesbaai picnic area. It is cut by a road and stretches over approximately 40 m along the road. The midden has an apparent thickness of some 15 cm. Some artefacts were found in the deposit, together with silcrete chunks and ostrich eggshell fragments. The shellfish remains consist of patellid species. Bone fragments are visible. As this site is at a public picnic area where there is an information board on whales, it is a possible location for the construction of an information board on shell midden occurrences in the Park. A peel (cast) of this or another midden section in the Park could be mounted and annotated as a display