Cascade I

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Cascade I

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  • 2929BC73
  • Cascades I

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      RSA CAS1

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      Brief description of site: The site faces NNW. The shelter is in a 250m sandstone band with many hollows. The painted section is 20m long, 4m deep and 4m high. The floor is fine sand and cattle dung with many fallen rocks and some bedrock. There are small shrubs and grass in front of the shelter, there is no screen as well as a steep slope to the river. There is some water drip in the summer. The painted surface is very badly weathered with extensive exfoliation. The shelter is used a lot by herdsmen and cattle. There are cattle rubbings on the painted surface.
      Brief description of art: The site contains more than 147 paintings: 107 Humans- 32 male, 5 female, 70 indeterminate. 28 animals: 9 eland, 3 rhebuck, 2 hartebeest, 2 felines, 1 baboon/dog, 11 indeterminate. Equipment: 6 quivers and ball, 33 remains.

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      How to find the site: From the Highmoor Forest Station take the track southwards across the plateau to the cattle enclosure, continue southwards past the modern hut and across the stream at the head of the Cleopatra Valley. Continue to walk across the Plateau close to the valley. Cross the small stream and continue to the next gully and climb down the path beside the river. Continue downstream for about 200m. The site is in a long krans about 100m up from the river on the right.
      pl location th h: E?.8.4E.X
      pl location th i: x731
      Map sheet: 2929BC
      Map sheet: 2929BC_1972_ED1_GEO
      Map sheet: 2929BC_2000_ED3_GEO

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          When was site visited: Unknown
          When was site visited: 23/09/1978
          When was site visited: 07/11/2009
          When was site visited: 07/11/2009
          When was site visited: 07/11/2009
          When was site visited earliest: 23/09/1978
          When was site visited earliest: 07/11/2009
          When was site visited earliest: 07/11/2009
          When was site visited earliest: 07/11/2009
          When was site visited latest: 23/09/1978
          When was site visited latest: 07/11/2009
          When was site visited latest: 07/11/2009
          When was site visited latest: 07/11/2009
          Who has been to site: Lee, Neil
          Who has been to site: Ward, V.
          Who has been to site: Hochkofler, Michael
          Who has been to site: Müller, Barbara
          Who has been to site: Topp, Tommy