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            Cullenswood I
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            Brief description of site: RSA CUL1 is an isolated, domed rock shelter at the eastern terminal end of a ridge above a small col to the north and overlooking and localised valley to the west, less than 1 km form the main dirt road to the east. The site is very exposed but has a commanding view. The site is 8 m long, up to 2 m high and up to 2.5 m deep with a hard, gritty floor with a low rock stack in the centre of the floor. The view is magnificent and the acoustics noticeable. The site is bilobial with two circular, domed recesses, ,most rock paintings in the large lobe. Vegetation minimal.

            The deposit is hard, gritty and thin with no depth anywhere. There are some stone tools made from hornfels (indurated shale) and opaline (crypto-crystalline silicate) belonging to the Later Stone Age (c. 25 000 years ago - Historic times). There are isolated fragments of bone, probably related to herding activities.
            Brief description of art: There are between 250 - 300 individual Bushman rock paintings that survived. The imagery is dominantly in white and red and has a grotesque, bizarre and immensely interesting character. There is a thin red line, occasionally fringed with pinhead-sized white dots and that runs horizontally across 4 m of rock face. There are also over 100 bees painted in white near concentric red and white rings that probably represent the hive. There are over 30 human figures painted in white, red and black; many of which have detailed facial features and which stand on or touch the thin red line. Interspersed are 20 + grotesque human-animal creatures with red stripes on body and face; also a toothed monster with long legs. 1 red, white and black, aardvark-like monster with a nosebleed. There are a number of beautiful rhebuck and also some eland in the lower panels. There is a peculiar being painted in red outline with white body infill. A few human figures are shown running at full tilt; including one with a distinctive headdress/hairdo and scrotum and penis. To the right of the vertical crack/tear in the rock there is a greater concentration of bizarre figures than to the left. There are some apparently 'normal' human figures in red paint; some of which hold sticks over their shoulders. Many figures have distinctive body postures such as holding their arms behind their backs; hands to their noses and bending forward at the waist.

            Cullenswood II
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            Brief description of site: RSA CUL2 is on the same ridge as RSA CUL1, about 180 m to the west. This is a large, cave-like space 30 m long, up to 3 m high on the eastern end, tapering to less than 1 m on the western end and up to 3 m deep. The site faces north-eat in a curving krantz with concave back wall. View is slightly more localised than RSA CUL1, but is still superb.

            The deposit is perhaps not all that deep - up to 1 m - but it is extensive and there are many stone tools. There are any number of stone tools present. These stone tools or 'lithics' all belong to the Later Stone Age, which covers the period from about 25 000 years ago until historic times. The raw materials used for these lithics are varied. Most are opalines - a crypto-crystalline silicate rock that forms in volcanic pipes and which then occurs either as nodules in rock strata or get washed down streams. There are also hornfels (also known as lydianite or indurated shale) stone tools and this raw material is everywhere available in the form of river cobbles. Every stage of stone tool manufacture is present at RSA CUL2. There are cores - large lumps of rock from which stone tools are made. There are flakes - general-purpose cutting tools. Adzes are present and were used for woodworking in much the same way as a spokeshave. End and side-scrapers, often in the shape of a thumbnail were used to prepare leather. There are also rare burins and awls - used to pierce. In addition to the stone tools, there are small pieces of grit-tempered, undecorated pottery fragments. There is also some bone and charcoal and a few metal items of recent vintage. The pottery may belong to herders or early farmers who used the site. There is also stone walling from the Historic period present.
            Brief description of art: Though once perhaps more densely painted, this large site has about 22 surviving Bushman paintings. 8 of these paintings are of massive eland (largest measures 59 cm x 28 cm) in red, white and black and in the shaded polychrome technique. These eland form a 5 m long cluster (x 0.5 m high) of eland in a row. Two of the eland bleed from the nose. There are fine red lines on their torsos. Immediately below the row of eland is a 5 m long, thick serpent in white, red and black. There are also 7 or 8 red human figures - male, with sticks and bows and perhaps arrows. There are two ethereal white monster-like human figures and another 2 red human figures with sticks and flywhisks. There are also 2 orange human figures.

            Farm I 494
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            Brief description of art: Cattle.