Test excavations at Wagon Ranch

Permission is requested to carry out a dozen or so small shovel text excavations in two Late Iron Age stone walled compounds located on the farm called Wagon Ranch. These compounds are part of the site known as Kweneng, located 35 km south of Johannesburg. The purpose of the test pits is to ascertain whether the houses in these structures were burnt and abandoned. If the results indicate that the houses were indeed burnt and abandoned with materials left in place, full scale excavations will be proposed in a future application. The proposed excavations will take place in Gauteng Province.