Overview
Identifiers
Inventory Number
3419CB96
Site Category
Historical/alternative Site Name
Alternate, PBAF 1612
Record Administration
Post date
Sunday, September 15, 2019 - 13:11
Last modified
Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 18:49
Archaeology
Archaeology Recordings
Submitted by sandiswa.mkuba on Wednesday, May 19, 2021 - 13:25.
Identifiers
Classifications
Stone Artefacts - Rock Types
Quartz
Quartzite
Diagnostic Stone Artefacts
Upper Grindstone
Location
Location
Mapping
-34.659383, 19.4665
Western Cape
- Overberg
- Overstrand
Gradings
Grading
Autoid
Submitted by
Submitted by katie.smuts on 15/09/2019 - 13:12.
Grading
Grade IIIb
Grading Date
GradingComment
Well preserved shell midden deposits on exposed, north facing dune slope, about 50m south of Site 1012 in back dune area, surrounded by dense Rooikrantz. Weathered shellfish is dominated by T. sarmaticus, Operculum, &adiagnostic limpets. Some burnt shellfish also noted. Relatively large number of quartzite flakes, chunks, broken/smashed cobbles, 1 hammerstone, 3 upper grindstones, 1 misc. grindstone fragment, 1 quartz core, and quartz chunks/flakes, many small unworked pebbles. No pottery, bone or OES found Grading by: Jonathan Kaplan
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