Overview
    Identifiers
    Inventory Number
    2927BA1
    Site Name
    Shelter with Rock Paintings, Tandjiesberg, Clocolan District
    Site Category
    Record Administration
    Author
    sahrisprojectmanager
    Last modified
    Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 16:43
      Location
      Location
      Mapping
      -29.081445, 27.630374
      Free State
      • Thabo Mofutsanyane
      • Setsoto
      Land Parcel Details
      Type of land parcel
      Street Address
      Land Parcel Reference
      Erf/Farm Portion: Subdivision Elthan 1/1
      Grading
      Grading
      Grade II
      GradingComment

      archiveimport Grading by: South African Heritage Resources Agency

      Statement of Significance

      Visted by Abbé Henri Breuil in the 1940s. Complex and well-preserved panels depicting animals and human-like figures. Successfully restored after fire damage in the late 1990s.

      Declaration
      DeclarationName
      Declaration Type
      Declaration Description

      The shelter with the rock paintings, being a national monument area, in extent 392 square metres. situated on a portion of Subdivision 1 (Elthan) of the farm Tandjesberg 1, in the District of Clocolan, as indicated by the figure ABCD on Survey Diagram SG 427/1992, dated 27 May 1992, filed in the office of the Surveyor-General at Bloemfontein and on File 9/2/308/1 in the office of the National Monuments Council at Cape Town.

      Gazette Date
      Gazette Number
      14358
      Gazette Notice Status
      Notice Date
      Notice Number
      2960
      Deeds Number
      T3589/1987, dated 22 April 1987
      Diagram Number
      SG 427/1992
      Archive Status
      National monument
      Media
      Images uploaded directly to Site