Overview
    Identifiers
    Inventory Number
    2725CC1
    Site Name
    Rock-engravings, Stowlands-on-Vaal, Boshof District
    Site Category
    Record Administration
    Author
    sahrisprojectmanager
    Last modified
    Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 16:43
    Built Environment Recordings
    Identifiers
    Inventory Reference
    Primary?
    Yes
    Classifications
    Building type
    Associated People
    History of use
      Location
      Location
      Mapping
      -27.905482, 25.191736
      Free State
      • Lejweleputswa
      • Tokologo
      Land Parcel Details
      Type of land parcel
      Farm
      Land Parcel Reference
      Erf/Farm No: 719
      Erf/Farm Portion: RE
      Grading
      Grading
      Grade II
      GradingComment

      archiveimport Grading by: South African Heritage Resources Agency

      Statement of Significance

      A site possibly associated with rain-making, with more than three hundred images including many geometric shapes, more than twenty-five animal species and fifteen human figures.

      Declaration
      DeclarationName
      Declaration Type
      Declaration Description

      The site with the rock engravings thereon, situated on a portion of certain remaining portion of the farm Stowlands 719 in the District of Boshof, in extent 61 581 (six one five eight one) square feet, as indicated by the figure ebcd on Surveyor's Diagram SG 379/1936, dated May 1936, and filed in the office of the Surveyor General at Bloemfontein and on File 9/21303/2 in the office of the National Monuments Council in Cape Town.

      Gazette Date
      Gazette Number
      15619
      Gazette Notice Status
      Notice Date
      Notice Number
      675
      Deeds Number
      T95/1987, dated 1987-01-08
      Diagram Number
      SG 379/1936
      Archive Status
      National monument
      9-2-303-2 Part1.pdf (429.25 KB)
      Media
      Images uploaded directly to Site
      Images uploaded to linked Site Recordings