Overview
    Identifiers
    Inventory Number
    3419CB95
    Site Name
    Pearly Beach Abalone Farm 1012
    Site Category
    Historical/alternative Site Name
    Alternate, PBAF 1012
    Record Administration
    Author
    katie.smuts
    Last modified
    Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 18:49
    Archaeology Recordings
    Identifiers
    Inventory Reference
    Recorders
    Recording Media
    Digital Photos
    GPS
    Primary?
    Yes
    Classifications
    Stone Artefacts - Rock Types
    Quartzite
    Diagnostic Stone Artefacts
    Upper Grindstone
      Location
      Location
      Mapping
      -34.659183, 19.46675
      Western Cape
      • Overberg
      • Overstrand
      Grading
      Grading
      Grade IIIb
      Grading Date
      GradingComment

      Well preserved-shell midden deposits recorded on a prominent, very visible dune mound. Shellfish comprises mostly fragmented and weathered shellfish, but larger pieces, and some whole shell also occur. Shellfish is dominated by T. sarmaticus, with large and smaller Operculum, adiagnostic limpet, but also S. Argenvillei & S. longicosta, small whelk, large fragments of Perlemoen (Haliotis sp) and periwinkle (D. sinensis). Many unmodified quartzite pebbles, large round cobbles, small number of quartzite flakes, inc. 1 hammerstone, 2 misc. upper grindstones, 1 broken, double sided upper grindstone. Grading by: Jonathan Kaplan

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