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Title: Archaeological finds, Golden Acre site, Cape Town, 1975
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Water, Archaeology, Building, Urban development
Description: Label on every stone - The first part of the dismantling process of the historic wall sections got under way at the Golden Acre site yesterday when detailed photographs of the stones were taken from a hydraulic crane. Each stone has been labelled to assist the SA Museum authorities to rebuild them exactly as they were. The sections were provisionally declared national monuments. The fate of the reservoir is still to be decided.
Identifier: islandora:17494

Title: Old cannon, Castle, Cape Town, 1954
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Castle of Good Hope (Cape Town, South Africa), Archaeology, Weapons, Colonialism
Description: Old Cannon. Col. Louis du Toit, Officer Commanding Cape Command examines a rusty cannon found in the moat of the Castle yesterday by workman of the Public Works department. With him are Major T. J. Nel and Mr J. P. Gerber.
Identifier: islandora:17098

Title: Cannons excavated at Cape Town docks.
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Archaeology, Harbours, Weapons
Description: Relics of the past: these two ancient cannons, probably those of an East Indian man-of-war, were dug up at the docks, where they have been buried for many years. They will be used as bollards in the new harbour construction scheme.
Identifier: islandora:17054

Title: Archaeological finds, Golden Acre site, Cape Town, 1975
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Water, Archaeology, Building, Urban development
Description: A section of a 250-year-old canal wall was lifted at the Golden Acre site today. The canal originally formed part of an attractive grid of canals, some of which linked what are now Adderley, Plein, Darling and Strand Streets. The wall is to be stored and later re-erected on the piazza of the shopping centre to be built on the site.
Identifier: islandora:17491

Title: Discovery of old cannons in Camps Bay, Cape Town
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Weapons, Historic sites, Archaeology
Description: Children examine the recently discovered guns. The battery that once stood here covered the seaward approaches to Camps Bay.
Identifier: islandora:17114

Title: Archaeological finds, Golden Acre site, Cape Town, 1975
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Water, Archaeology, Building, Urban development
Description: The old Heerengracht stream which flowed through this brickwork watercourse has been re-routed above the underground pedestrian walkway.
Identifier: islandora:17495

Title: Post Office stone', Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Communications, Urban development, Building, Archaeology
Description: This old post office stone is probably one of the oldest found in the country. It was dug up on the Golden Acre site yesterday and is being examined by South African Museum officials. There are inscriptions on both sides of the stone and the date which looks like 1577. The name of a ship is also vaguely discernible. Mr Victor Thompson, seen here, is a carpenter working on the site. He spotted the stone in sand being excavated. [Iziko Museums Identification, 2013: 'Post office stone' left at the Cape by the Wapen Van Rotterdam (1622), which left from Goeree in the Netherlands on 9 November 1621 bound for Batavia in the East and visited Table Bay on her outward voyage. Inscription reads: i(n) Schip Ghena(EMD)Rotterdam daer opKersboom Schipper Gillis-Uut de Maes den 9 NovemberDen 30 Meert A(nno) 1622 Rick van Ja]
Identifier: islandora:17124

Title: Muzzle-loading cannon, Salt River, 1957
Subject: Salt River (Cape Town, South Africa), Historical monuments, Archaeology, Urban development, Railways
Description: This old muzzle-loading cannon was unearthed when the foundations for the railway workshops at Salt River were being sunk. Giving it an affectionate polish is Mr C. A. Driescher.
Identifier: islandora:17117

Title: Gabebah Abrahams explores an early waterway, Cape Town
Subject: Archaeology, Excavation sites (Archaeology), Water-pipes--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Miss Gabebah Abrahams delving into one of Cape Town's earliest man-made waterways.
Identifier: islandora:14695

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