The Melville Koppies Cave. The plaque indicates that it is a Johannesburg Heritage site. The plaque states: "The cave is a fissure formed between 2.9 billion-year-old quartzite rocks of what is now the Melville Koppies Ridge. For hundreds of years the cave provided a shelter for people living around and moving across the area. The site was excavated in 1971. An analysis of the archaeological remains found in the cave suggests that, as early as 1500 A.D., farming communities made use of the resources the area had to offer. When supplies dwindled they supplemented their diet with wild plants and hunted wild animals."
Melville Koppies is a nature reserve and a Johannesburg City Heritage Site in Johannesburg, South Africa.[1] The word 'koppie' means small hill.[2]
Iron Age artefacts can still be found at the site.[3][4] Visitors can walk or hike in the Koppies, and tours are offered.[5] Neighbouring it is the Johannesburg Botanical Garden.
^"Melville Koppies Nature Reserve". www.mk.org.za. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
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^"Revil Mason's Melville Koppies | The Heritage Portal". www.theheritageportal.co.za. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
^Carstens, Wendy (2014). "The value of tours around heritage sites with Melville Koppies as an example". Yesterday and Today (12): 117–127. ISSN 2223-0386 – via Scielo.
MelvilleKoppies is a nature reserve and a Johannesburg City Heritage Site in Johannesburg, South Africa. The word 'koppie' means small hill. Iron Age...
Johannesburg's ridges called MelvilleKoppies. MelvilleKoppies lies on the Kaapvaal craton, which dates from three billion years ago. The Koppies lie at the base...
estimated that the furnaces date to around 1600, the same period as the MelvilleKoppies furnace. Bits of slag were found near the furnaces, on large flat rocks...
7th Avenue. In Melville, lanes run east to west while roads lie north to south. Melville borders on the north to the MelvilleKoppies, a small protected...
Archived from the original on 11 November 2013. Retrieved 16 May 2017. "MelvilleKoppies: Ancient History". mk.org.za. Archived from the original on 15 March...
discovery of gold. The most prominent site within Johannesburg is MelvilleKoppies, which contains an iron smelting furnace. After the Great Trek European...
Anderson 2009, Chapter 2. "Walking in the ruins of a lost world in MelvilleKoppies". Mail and Guardian. 14 November 2013. "Fochville". tourismnorthwest...
them to construct a stone and earth dam from blocks of stone from the MelvilleKoppies behind the farm and cost £12,000. The dam was built over the Westdene...
them to construct a stone and earth dam from blocks of stone from the MelvilleKoppies behind the farm and cost £12,000. The dam was built over the Westdene...
walking, with distant views of Sandton and Rosebank, and the (nearby) MelvilleKoppies. There is a well-tended rose garden, and Johannesburg City Parks maintains...
During his career Mason excavated several significant sites including MelvilleKoppies, Linksfield Ridge, Bruma, and Sterkfontein. He discovered prehistoric...
Moçambique - with W McNae and M Kalk (Wits University Press) 1970 Flora of MelvilleKoppies (Johannesburg Council for Natural History) 2000 Fedsure calendar 2001...
Houghton to the East; Killarney and Forest Town to the North, and Westcliff, Melville and Richmond to the West. Originally established by the Randlords in the...
Kestell Public Library Kgotsong public Library Koffiefontein Public Library Koppies Public Library Kroonstad Public Library Kutlwanong Public Library Kwakwatsi...
proximity. Of the koppies located in Greater Johannesburg, Fourways has one located in the Fourways Nature Reserve, named the Norscot Koppies. Lone Hill and...
State Kokstad KwaZulu-Natal Komatipoort Mpumalanga Kommetjie Western Cape Koppies Free State Kraaifontein Western Cape Kromdraai Gauteng Kroonstad Free State...
These two very interesting forts are situated on koppies to the south of Pretoria. Fort Schanskop stands about one kilometre east of the Voortrekker Monument...
can be observed, commonly as bornhardts, but also as inselbergs, castle koppies and nubbins. Rising abruptly from the surrounding landscape they create...
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