GI4

This site was said by Morris (2013:19) to be comprised of “several places with isolated or weakly clustered artefacts of Pleistocene age… One of these in the approximate location indicated suggests an Acheulean (Earlier Stone Age) workshop site focussed on what was apparently a favoured raw material source outcropping there.” Despite an extensive search, we were unable to locate any of the artefact scatters at this site. Approximately one hour of searching with two people yielded just three flakes in quartzite. Figure 30 illustrates the search path of one person (only one GPS was taken to site as no survey work was anticipated) but two people were conducting the search. While looking for the site we visited every rock outcrop that was visible within about a 200 m radius of the provided GPS co-ordinate. Nothing further can be said of this site. Conversation with David Morris suggests that it would not have been any more significant than GI3 and GI5 and that mitigation could thus be overlooked for the site. This approach has been agreed to by SAHRA.