30D Report S.A.A. Advancement of Science. 



Some of the objects obtained are shewn in the accompanying illus- 

 tration (Plate 8). Those in the two left-hand rows are from one 

 rockshelter, the rest are from the other. They are mostly scrapers, 

 made chiefly of the local jasper, but also of grey chert from the 

 dolomite and coloured cherts, and agate from the Vaal River 

 amygdaloids. The remarkably small core, from which correspond- 

 ingly minute, long, narrow flakes have been struck, is a particularly 

 eloquent testimony to the skill of the makers of these stone imple- 

 ments. Very interesting, too, is the sea-shell, of which two views 

 are given, the incised ostrich eggshell fragment, and the ostrich egg- 

 shell bead. I also obtained a couple of facetted grinding-stones, 

 one from each shelter. 



From among debris on a hill close by I also obtained a typical 

 Palaeolithic implement of jasper. It has rather an old appearance, 

 and does not suggest any connection with the rockshelter imple- 

 ments. 



The kloofs at Griquatown are full of rockshelters. Stow 

 mentions aboriginal paintings in one of them, but there were none 

 in those I examined. I obtained quite a nice series of flake-tools 

 of jasper and chert in them. Twenty-two examples are shewn in 

 the accompanying illustrations (Plate 7). Some of them are very 

 fine instances of work in stone, but the drawings, unfortunately, do 

 them scant justice. 



Though there is a difference in detail between the groups 

 figured from Kranzfontein and those from Griquatown, the general 

 facies is unmistakably the same. The assemblage is very similar, 

 though by no means identical, with that of Riverton. The very long 

 scrapers and those trimmed at both ends are represented, as also 

 are the " pigmies " by some very neat specimens. 



There must he a wealth of interesting material hidden away in 

 these rockshelters. The specimens I obtained are the result of a 

 hurried examination during a two or three hours' outspan, and can 

 be but a tithe of what would reward a systematic exploration. 



Advanced Group from Blauwbank (O. 376 D.), Hay. 



On this farm, which is situated on the banks of the Orange 

 River, I obtained a nice series of minute chert scrapers like those 

 from Taaibosch Spruit, as well as some neat " pigmies," among 

 sand-dunes. Together with them I found fragments of pottery, two 

 small glass beads, aiid numerous ostrich eggshell heads. These last 

 occurred in every stage of manufacture, from a piece of shell with 

 the hole just started, to the finished article. Manv had been broken 

 before completion. 



xA.DVANCED Group from Lymputs, Hay. 



On the farm Lvmputs I obtained a number of minute jasper 

 scrapers of the Taaibosch Spruit type, associated with flakes of green 

 aphanite, among low kopjes bordering a spruit. 



