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pared or unfinished palaeoliths exposed on the surface or found at 

 shallow depth. 



Another point which this Simondium deposit has in common with 

 that of the Paarl, ivhich is nearly on tJic same level, is the selection 

 by the makers of such a high position for their workshop or abode. 

 Was the river that drains the valley nearer than it is now? 



The great thickness of the iron-gravel at the Simondium Eailway 

 Station, in which some of the implements were found, has, like the 

 large block of iron-stone at the Paarl, taken a very long time to 

 accumulate. In that deposit, while forming, the stone implements, 

 artefacts already of great antiquity, have gravitated, following the 

 course of hill denudation and valley formation. 



And this occurrence is repeated wherever the Stellenbosch-type 

 quartzite boucher is found. Look for it in iron-gravel or below it, 

 when not very thick, and you will find it there as often as in alluvium 

 or silt, perhaps because it was arrested in its downward course by 

 the formation of conglomerate. 



StellenboscJi Station. 



At Bosnian's Crossing, near Stellenbosch, the occurrence of these 

 palaeoliths is somewhat different. 



At the foot of a steep hill called Papagaiberg runs a small rivulet, 

 a tributary of the Eerste River, which it joins close by. The spur 

 of that hill abuts on that rivulet, and is intersected on one side by a 

 cart-road and a railway cutting on the other. The space thus left 

 has been used for a good many years as a brick-field, from which a 

 thickness of some 20 feet or more of material has been removed. I 

 found there in the vertical wall, from which the clay was detached by 

 pickaxe, two superposed layers of fractured, water-woini boulders, 

 spalls, nuclei, finished bouchers, such as Figs. 2 and 4 of PI. I., and 

 a few triangular scrapers that, like Fig. 95 of PL XII., had probably 

 not been utilised as such. They had been deposited on the granite 

 formation, and I traced these layers on the other side of the railway 

 cutting, also resting on the mass of granite which terminates abruptly 

 on the bank of the Eerste River. I traced them also on the other 

 side of the cart-road, flush with the floor of an excavation 30 feet 

 deep, and corresponding, with only a slight incline, with the granite 

 surface on which the deposit rested. The great accumulation of this 

 brick-clay is in itself a proof of great antiquity. But in addition 

 to this Bosman's Crossing deposit I have since proved that palaeo- 

 liths are found in the whole of the Stellenbosch (Eerste River) 



