Overview
    Identifiers
    Inventory Number
    2927AC4
    Site Name
    Rock Paintings, Modderpoortspruit, Ladybrand District
    Site Category
    Record Administration
    Author
    sahrisprojectmanager
    Last modified
    Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 16:43
    Archaeology Recordings
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    Inventory Reference
    Recording date
    Recording Media
    Digital Photos
    GPS
    Primary?
    Yes
    Built Environment Recordings
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    Inventory Reference
    Primary?
    Yes
    Classifications
    Building type
    Associated People
    History of use
    Rock Art Recordings
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    Inventory Reference
    Recording date
    Primary?
    Yes
    Classifications
    Details of Rock Art

    The main panel at the site contains remarkable depictions of birds and an unusual winged figure with zigzag legs.it is on the mountains.

    Motif Listing
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    Panel Sort descending Images # Tradition Technique Motif Colours Equipment Facing SP? Notes
      Location
      Location
      Mapping
      -29.112431, 27.443938
      Free State
      • Thabo Mofutsanyane
      • Mantsopa
      Land Parcel Details
      Type of land parcel
      Farm
      Land Parcel Reference
      Erf/Farm No: 35
      Directions to Site
      At the back of the Anglican church up the hall in the mountains inside the st Augustine's premises
      Grading
      Grading
      Grade II
      GradingComment

      archiveimport Grading by: South African Heritage Resources Agency

      Statement of Significance

      Paintings of eland facing each other head-on, a cattle raid and a bird with zigzag legs. Part of the Modderpoort Mission and close to the grave of Basotho prophetess Mantsopa Makheta.

      Declaration
      DeclarationName
      Declaration Type
      Declaration Description

      The cave with the rock paintings, situated on the Remainder of the farm Modderpoortspruit 35, in the in the District of Ladybrand. in extent 2 105 (two one nought five) square feet or 209 (two nought nine) square metres, as indicated by the figure "B.A.a.along the face of cave.b.B." on surveyor's diagram SG 306/1937, dated May 1936 and filed in the office of the Surveyor·General at
      Bloemfontein and on File 9/2/325/10 in the office of the National Monuments Council in Cape Town

      Gazette Date
      Gazette Number
      16670
      Gazette Notice Status
      Notice Date
      Notice Number
      1442
      Diagram Number
      306/1936
      Archive Status
      National monument
      9-2-325-10.pdf (406.52 KB)
      Media
      Images uploaded directly to Site
      Images uploaded to linked Site Recordings