. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM Test pit Excavated to bedrock Excavated short of bedrock Excavated in 1976 to bedrock Excavated in 1976 to c, 50 cm 5. -new-#»*2r A*? Fig. 3. BNK 1. Plan of the cave, showing the excavated area. In March-April 1973 a test pit was excavated. The original area of the pit was 1 x 1 m but at a depth of about 0,7 m a human burial was partly exposed and it became necessary to enlarge the excavation to 1,0 x 1,5 m. Bedrock was reached at a depth of about 3 m, and laborator
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM Test pit Excavated to bedrock Excavated short of bedrock Excavated in 1976 to bedrock Excavated in 1976 to c, 50 cm 5. -new-#»*2r A*? Fig. 3. BNK 1. Plan of the cave, showing the excavated area. In March-April 1973 a test pit was excavated. The original area of the pit was 1 x 1 m but at a depth of about 0,7 m a human burial was partly exposed and it became necessary to enlarge the excavation to 1,0 x 1,5 m. Bedrock was reached at a depth of about 3 m, and laboratory examination of the material recovered indicated that a larger excavation was merited. Because of a lack of clarity in the stratigraphy, partly explicable in the upper deposit as the result of disturbance due to the burial, much of the test pit was excavated in spits of varying thickness. The actual stratigraphy was made clearer by subsequent study of the walls of the test pit, but because of a lack of precise correlation between the spits and the actual stratigraphy, material from the test pit is not included in the analyses that follow. In January-February 1974 a stratigraphically controlled excavation was undertaken, extending from the test pit towards the mouth of the cave. Three 1-metre squares were taken down to bedrock and a fourth excavated to about 90 cm short of bedrock. After analysis of the material from the 1974 excavation, which formed the basis for a preliminary report (Schweitzer & Wilson 1978), it was decided to extend the excavation in order to increase the size of the samples, particularly the fauna. Accordingly, in November-December 1976 two 1-metre squares adjacent to the 1974 trench were excavated to bedrock and a further four in. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original So
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