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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:17496

Title: Archaeological exploration, Grand Parade, 1983
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, Archaeology, Colonialism, Women
Description: Archaeologist Miss Gabebah Abrahams works in a building site trench on the Grand Parade where she is convinced she has found remains of the base of one of four bastions of Van Riebeeck's original earth-walled fort.
Identifier: islandora:17160

Title: An Osteological Analysis of the Protohistoric Populations of the Northern Cape and Western Orange Free State, South Africa
Subject: physical anthropology, archaeological skeletons, Northern Cape History
Description: PhD Thesis, University of the Witwatersrand Submitted May 1984
Identifier: islandora:33261

Title: Archaeological finds, Golden Acre, 1975
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Water, Archaeology, Building, Urban development
Description: Archaeologists from the South African Museum and the University of Cape Town busy unearthing the dam wall found on Cape Town's Golden Acre. It is now thought that the wall is part of the reservoir built by Jan Van Riebeeck's successor, Zacharias Wagenaar. Although it suffered slight damage when the foundations of Cape Town's old station were sunk, it is still in good condition.
Identifier: islandora:17489

Title: 17th century water canal, Adderley Street, Cape Town, 1982
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Water, Archaeology, Building, Urban development
Description: Water canal found in city: Council workers laying water pipes in Adderley Street stopped digging when archaeologist, Miss Gabebah Abrahams peered down the hole and discovered a 17th century water canal. Miss Abrahams, 25, who says she makes a habit of looking into holes, saw a levelling of stone where the workers were digging which seemed to be a wall. Further excavations unearthed a canal which seems to connect to the wall. The canal runs under Adderley Street and joins up with canals running from Government Avenue up Wale Street to Long Street and Buitengracht Street. CASTLE: The mortar and brickwork is the same as the wall of Wagenaar's Reservoir, unearthed in the Golden Acre. Miss Abrahams said it was of the same period as the Castle and was probably built in the 17th century during the Dutch occupation of the Cape. "There used to be a moat around the Houses of Parliament. The ducts could have led into this to carry water off", she said. "This is one of the oldest structures in Cape Town . People are digging up valuable cultural and historical material all the time and they don't know about it. We are losing the history of Cape Town", she added. Miss Abrahams also found some clay pipe, an old bottle base, porcelain, bone and pottery, which date back to the 17th century. The porcelain is the same type as that discovered in the Golden Acre. Some of the canal will be demolished when the City Council lays water pipes.
Identifier: islandora:17490

Title: Archaeological finds, Golden Acre site, Cape Town, 1975
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Water, Archaeology, Building, Urban development
Description: Mr Michael Wilson (left), the archaeologist working on the Golden Acre site, points out a section of what may be the wall of Van Riebeeck's historic 'drinkwaterback' dam to Mr Graeme Clark, site engineer.
Identifier: islandora:17493

Title: Morris PhD Thesis 1984
Subject: physical anthropology, archaeological skeletons, Northern Cape History
Description: Comments from Phillip Tobias on draft of Chapter 3 (Materials and Methods)
Identifier: islandora:33262

Title: Morris PhD Thesis 1984
Subject: physical anthropology, archaeological skeletons, Northern Cape History
Description: 1984 Examiners' reports: WW Howells, JL Angel, PV Tobias
Identifier: islandora:33263

Title: Gabebah Abrahams in a 17th Century Canal, Cape Town
Subject: Archaeology, Excavation sites (Archaeology), Water-pipes--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Archaeologist Miss Gabebah Abrahams's enthusiasm for her work is infectious. Crouching in the 17th century canal she discovered with the help of City Council workers she explained how important it was to make people in Cape Town aware of the history of their city
Identifier: islandora:14694

Title: Archaeological finds, Golden Acre site, Cape Town, 1975
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Water, Archaeology, Building, Urban development
Description: Jessie Fagan (nearest the camera) and colleagues from the South African Museum and University of Cape Town, at work unearthing stone at Cape Town's Golden Acre - part of a dam wall dating back to the earliest days of the Cape. It is hoped to remove sections for preservation.
Identifier: islandora:17492

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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