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Post date: 21/10/2020
A number of stone tools, all dating to the Middle Stone Age were identified in two small areas that occurs on the western side of the a small ridge. The material is mostly chert and jasper (an iron rich chert, resulting in the reddish colour), but some made from quartzite were also identified. Cores, flakes and unspecific tools (probably all scrapers) were identified. The high ratio of flakes to tools seems to indicate that this was a factory site where material, obtained from local outcrops, was worked into tools. In contrast to the rest of the study area where very few stone tools occur, in these two areas it has a density of approximately 2 objects per 2 m 2 . None of the areas are larger than 20 x 20 metres.