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Post date: 20/01/2017
A small surface site located on an exposed calcrete surface amongst the shifting dunes, approximately 10 meters in diameter, displaying clear spatial patterning of discarded sea shells, bone and stone artefacts. Of particular note is the presence of Cetacean bone on the edge of the site suggesting that this may have been a butchering area. Many other bones were observed including some large terrestrial mammal. Stone artefacts are mainly made on quartzite and limestone. Indigenous pottery was found and the fragments probably represent the remains of one pot. Shell species include Turbo sarmaticus (allekreukel), Haliotis midae (perlemoen) and Oxystele sp (periwinkel). Only occasional Patella (limpet) shells were observed. The artefactual material suggests that the site postdates 2000 BP (before present).