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Post date: 23/03/2021
Common Name: Farm: Olrig 1710
A small informal burial place with probably 10 graves (visibility poor due to the vegetation cover), all of which do not have formal headstones and are only marked with stone cairns. Bennyworth (2004) makes a compelling argument for a similar scenario of the farm Lilyvale 2123, southwest of the study area, that these graves might be linked to the British forced that occupied the sangars surrounding the hill (see above). They are most probably graves of black people that were used as labourers at the camps: Records reflect that many of the Boer concentration camps set up by British forces retained black labour force to provide labour in the running of these camps and they were incarcerated usually within the defensive cordon around these places. As for the British garrisons, the same would have been true. Living areas for black labourers, accommodated in the labour camps would have been established within the defensive cordon and the men compelled to remain within the cordon, due to martial law and a state of war (Bennyworth 2004:4)