Overview
Identifiers
Inventory Number
3326BD7
Site Name
Bailey's Beacon and 1820 Toposcope, Bathurst
Site Category
Monuments & Memorials
Record Administration
Author
Dilshaat.Davids
Post date
Friday, June 22, 2012 - 14:08
Last modified
Wednesday, November 6, 2024 - 08:08
Monuments & Memorials Recordings
Submitted by sahrisprojectmanager on Wednesday, April 28, 2021 - 16:50.
Identifiers
Inventory Reference
9/2/009/0024
Recording date
Recorders
Sandiswa Teyise
Fundiswa Ngindo
Primary?
Off
Classifications
Monument Type
Commemorative Cairn
Commemorative Monument
Description

Bailey's Beacon. To show the direction and distance from that site of the location of the parties in the settlement.

Original Position
Yes
Contains Animal figures?
No
Contains Human figures?
No
Construction Date Comment
Built in 1820 by Settlers Commissioner
Construction Materials
Stone
Concrete
Pedestal Material
Stones
Granite
Event Commemorated
Bailey's Beacon. Placing of Settlers to their locations and show directions and distances from that site.
Inscriptions
/Close to this site in 1820 Colonel Jacob Cuyber made this camp while supervising the placing of the Settlers in their Locations. While camped here at the same time. Sir Rufane Donken shows the site for the administrative centre to be named Burthurst./
Archaeology Recordings
Submitted by siyasanga.mhlekude on Tuesday, March 4, 2014 - 14:17.
Identifiers
Inventory Reference
9/2/009/0024
Recording date
Primary?
Yes
Built Environment Recordings
Submitted by sahrisprojectmanager on 07/08/2012.
Identifiers
Inventory Reference
9/2/009/0024
Primary?
Yes
Classifications
Building type
Memorial, Beacon
Associated People
History of use
Use Period Use
Current
Memorial
Location
Location
Mapping
-33.496296, 26.843913
KML File
Erf1.kml (1.85 KB)
Eastern Cape
  • Sarah Baartman
  • Ndlambe
Land Parcel Details
Type of land parcel
Street Address
Land Parcel Reference
Erf/Farm No: 1
Boundary road
Bathurst
Owner(s)
Bathurst Municipality
Access details
Public Access.
Grading
Autoid
Grading - 248108
Submitted by
Submitted by sahrisprojectmanager on 27/06/2012 - 02:00.
Grading
Grade II
GradingComment

archiveimport Grading by: South African Heritage Resources Agency

Statement of Significance

Col. Jacob Cuyler's camp stood on this site when he supervised the settlement of the 1820 Settlers on their allotments. The Governor, Sir Rufane Donkin also pitched his camp here when he determined the site of the town of Bathurst.

Declaration
DeclarationName
Declaration - 217594
Declaration Type
Provincial Heritage Site
Declaration Description

Certain piece of land with the beacon and monument thereon, being a monument area of Part of Erf 1, Bathurst, situate in the Municipality of Bathurst, Administrative District of Bathurst, Province of the Cape of Good Hope, measuring 11.5779 morgen (diagram for proclamation purposes 1588/68), an unregistered subdivision of the remainder of the Bathurst town commonage Division of Bathurst (now known as the Remainder of Erf 1, Bathurst), measuring (as such) 3379.2919 morgen.

Gazette Date
Gazette Number
2140
Gazette Notice Status
Current
Notice Date
Notice Number
1311
Deeds Number
Bathurst Freeholds Vol. 2. Fol. 9, dated 22 August 1914
Diagram Number
1588/1968
Archive Status
National monument
2140-1311_0.pdf (12.79 KB)
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