Overview
Identifiers
Inventory Number
3419CB95
Site Name
Pearly Beach Abalone Farm 1012
Site Category
Historical/alternative Site Name
Alternate, PBAF 1012
Record Administration
Post date
Sunday, September 15, 2019 - 13:10
Last modified
Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 18:49
Archaeology
Archaeology Recordings
Submitted by sandiswa.mkuba on Wednesday, May 19, 2021 - 13:22.
Identifiers
Classifications
Stone Artefacts - Rock Types
Quartzite
Diagnostic Stone Artefacts
Upper Grindstone
Location
Location
Mapping
-34.659183, 19.46675
Western Cape
- Overberg
- Overstrand
Gradings
Grading
Autoid
Submitted by
Submitted by katie.smuts on 15/09/2019 - 13:14.
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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