Overview
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    Inventory Number
    3021DD1
    Site Name
    Corbelled House Complex, Konka, Carnarvon District
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    Record Administration
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    sahrisprojectmanager
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    Archaeology Recordings
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    Built Environment Recordings
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    (James Walton Corbelled Houses of the Karreeberge 1960)
    Konka is situated in a sheltered hollow, about 16 miles from Carnarvon on the road to Zwart Kop. The old homestead, as it was in 1885, when the father of the present owner, Mr W JJ Le Roux came to K
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    Associated People
    History of use
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      Location
      Location
      Mapping
      -30.912655, 21.907487
      Northern Cape
      • Pixley ka Seme
      • Kareeberg
      Land Parcel Details
      Type of land parcel
      Street Address
      Land Parcel Reference
      Carnarvon
      Directions to Site
      High
      Grading
      Grading
      Grade II
      GradingComment

      archiveimport Grading by: South African Heritage Resources Agency

      Statement of Significance

      Konka is an excellent example of a rare, surviving corbelled house complex and sheep kraal, which to

      Declaration
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      Declaration Description

      The two corbelled huts and sheep kraal, as well as one metre of surrounding land, situated on certain partially abolished quitrent land and partially freehold land (now known as the Remainder of the farm Konka 507), in the Division of Carnarvon.
      Deed of Transfer T29072/1981, dated 10 July 1981. (Endorsement, page 4.)

      Gazette Date
      Gazette Number
      14997
      Notice Date
      Notice Number
      1318
      Archive Status
      National monument
      14997-1318_1.pdf (51.54 KB)
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