Identity area
Type of entity
Site
Authorized form of name
Leeuw Krantz I 134
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Identifiers for corporate bodies
RSA LWK1
Description area
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Brief description of art: Geometrics.
Places
Williston
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Conservation action taken: Conservation
The site seems well protected from direct sunlight and from rain. In addition, the area has low rainfall and humidity. These factors combine to provide conditions conductive to the preservation of the paintings.
There are sections in the sandstone rock face at Leeuw Krantz I that have broken off from the krans. A fairly large slab of sandstone with paintings still on it lies on the floor while a few metres to the south you can see how a piece of rock has broken off, taking with it, a portion on a red painting.
There are a few small rock edges above the paintings on which birds have roosted in the past. Unfortunately, these birds have defecated over the edges of their roosting ledge and over some of the paintings.
Recommendations
It is highly recommended that management should only allow visitors to see the site only when accompanied by a responsible person. This person should ensure that the visitors do not touch the paintings at all.
The number of people visiting the site should be kept down because people's feet stir dust, which then in turn settles on the rock face and the paintings and over a long period of time obscures the paintings. This means that the less the people in the site, the less dust stirred up. Large groups of people should then be broken down to smaller groups.
Employees and visitors should be informed about the National heritage Recourses Act, 1999 which states that:
'No person may destroy, damage, deface, excavate, alter, remove from its original position, subdivide or change the planning status of any heritage site without a permit issued by the heritage resources authority responsible for the protection of such site.'
Such a person, if successfully prosecuted, is liable to a fine or imprisonment for a period not exceeding five years or to both a fine and imprisonment.
The site seems well protected from direct sunlight and from rain. In addition, the area has low rainfall and humidity. These factors combine to provide conditions conductive to the preservation of the paintings.
There are sections in the sandstone rock face at Leeuw Krantz I that have broken off from the krans. A fairly large slab of sandstone with paintings still on it lies on the floor while a few metres to the south you can see how a piece of rock has broken off, taking with it, a portion on a red painting.
There are a few small rock edges above the paintings on which birds have roosted in the past. Unfortunately, these birds have defecated over the edges of their roosting ledge and over some of the paintings.
Recommendations
It is highly recommended that management should only allow visitors to see the site only when accompanied by a responsible person. This person should ensure that the visitors do not touch the paintings at all.
The number of people visiting the site should be kept down because people's feet stir dust, which then in turn settles on the rock face and the paintings and over a long period of time obscures the paintings. This means that the less the people in the site, the less dust stirred up. Large groups of people should then be broken down to smaller groups.
Employees and visitors should be informed about the National heritage Recourses Act, 1999 which states that:
'No person may destroy, damage, deface, excavate, alter, remove from its original position, subdivide or change the planning status of any heritage site without a permit issued by the heritage resources authority responsible for the protection of such site.'
Such a person, if successfully prosecuted, is liable to a fine or imprisonment for a period not exceeding five years or to both a fine and imprisonment.
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Internal structures/genealogy
How to find the site: This site is located in a +/-150m long, east-facing krans about 300m east of the dirt road that branches off from the R63 at the farm 'Zakfontein' and heads northwards to the farm RSA-BNS1. The krans is in the camp called 'Sandjie' on the farm RSA-LWK1.
pl location th h: E?.8.7.A
pl location th i: x154
Map sheet: 3121AA
Map sheet: 3121AA_1970_ED1_GEO
Map sheet: 3121AA_2005_ED3_GEO
Map sheet: 3120_1987_ED4_MD_199105_GEO
Map sheet: 3120_1987_ED4_MD_199105_GEO
pl location th h: E?.8.7.A
pl location th i: x154
Map sheet: 3121AA
Map sheet: 3121AA_1970_ED1_GEO
Map sheet: 3121AA_2005_ED3_GEO
Map sheet: 3120_1987_ED4_MD_199105_GEO
Map sheet: 3120_1987_ED4_MD_199105_GEO
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Maintenance notes
When was site visited: 21/05/2004
When was site visited: 21/05/2004
When was site visited earliest: 21/05/2004
When was site visited earliest: 21/05/2004
When was site visited latest: 21/05/2004
When was site visited latest: 21/05/2004
Who has been to site: Hollmann, Jeremy
Who has been to site: Hykkerud, M.K.
When was site visited: 21/05/2004
When was site visited earliest: 21/05/2004
When was site visited earliest: 21/05/2004
When was site visited latest: 21/05/2004
When was site visited latest: 21/05/2004
Who has been to site: Hollmann, Jeremy
Who has been to site: Hykkerud, M.K.