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Archaeological exploration, Grand Parade, 1983
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Subject
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Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, Archaeology, Colonialism, Women
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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.
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Identifier
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islandora:17160
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Archaeological finds, Golden Acre, 1975
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Cape Town (South Africa), Water, Archaeology, Building, Urban development
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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.
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Identifier
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islandora:17489
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17th century water canal, Adderley Street, Cape Town, 1982
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Subject
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Cape Town (South Africa), Water, Archaeology, Building, Urban development
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Description
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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.
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Identifier
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islandora:17490
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Archaeological finds, Golden Acre site, Cape Town, 1975
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Subject
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Cape Town (South Africa), Water, Archaeology, Building, Urban development
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Description
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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.
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Identifier
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islandora:17493
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Title
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Morris PhD Thesis 1984
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Subject
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physical anthropology, archaeological skeletons, Northern Cape History
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Description
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Comments from Phillip Tobias on draft of Chapter 3 (Materials and Methods)
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Identifier
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islandora:33262
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Title
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Morris PhD Thesis 1984
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Subject
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physical anthropology, archaeological skeletons, Northern Cape History
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Description
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1984 Examiners' reports: WW Howells, JL Angel, PV Tobias
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Identifier
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islandora:33263
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Title
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Gabebah Abrahams in a 17th Century Canal, Cape Town
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Subject
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Archaeology, Excavation sites (Archaeology), Water-pipes--South Africa--Cape Town
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Description
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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
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Identifier
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islandora:14694
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Archaeological finds, Golden Acre site, Cape Town, 1975
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Subject
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Cape Town (South Africa), Water, Archaeology, Building, Urban development
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Description
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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.
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Identifier
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islandora:17492
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Archaeological finds, Golden Acre site, Cape Town, 1975
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Subject
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Cape Town (South Africa), Water, Archaeology, Building, Urban development
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Description
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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.
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Identifier
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islandora:17494
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Old cannon, Castle, Cape Town, 1954
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Subject
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Cape Town (South Africa), Castle of Good Hope (Cape Town, South Africa), Archaeology, Weapons, Colonialism
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Description
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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.
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Identifier
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islandora:17098
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Cannons excavated at Cape Town docks.
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Cape Town (South Africa), Archaeology, Harbours, Weapons
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Description
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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.
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Identifier
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islandora:17054
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Archaeological finds, Golden Acre site, Cape Town, 1975
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Subject
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Cape Town (South Africa), Water, Archaeology, Building, Urban development
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Description
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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.
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Identifier
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islandora:17491
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Post Office stone', Cape Town
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Subject
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Cape Town (South Africa), Communications, Urban development, Building, Archaeology
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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]
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Identifier
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islandora:17124
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Muzzle-loading cannon, Salt River, 1957
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Salt River (Cape Town, South Africa), Historical monuments, Archaeology, Urban development, Railways
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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.
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Identifier
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islandora:17117