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TOWARDS the end of April last, Mr. F. W. Webber, chairman of Carrig Diamonds, Ltd., very generously presented a collection of stone implements and a variety of deeply mineralised faunal remains to the Bureau of Archaeology recently established at the University of the Witwatersrand. These had been recovered from diamondiferous gravels on the property of Carrig Mamonds, Ltd., at Riverview Estates on the left bank of the Vaal River immediately opposite Windsorton (lat. 28° 20′ S., long. 24° 44′ E.) shown oa the accompanying sketch plan (Fig.-I). As similar remains were still being recovered, I immediately requested Dr. S. H. Haughton, director of the Geological Survey of the Union of South Africa, to accompany me to the site with the object of a detailed investigation. Mr. F. W. Webber had kindly offered to accompany and guide us, and an examination of the area was accordingly carried out during the second week in May.
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van Riet Lowe, C. Implementiferous Gravels of the Vaal River at Riverview Estates. Nature 136, 53–56 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136053a0
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