Background to the Transvaal Iron Age - new discoveries at Olifantspoort and Broederstroom
Robert Mason · Journal of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy · 1974
The work being done on Iron Age sites in the Transvaal is descriptionbed, with particular reference to the finds at Olifantspoort and Broederstroom. The material so far found provides evidence for the production of iron and copper, the farming of cattle and sheep, and the construction of large villages by people who were probably ancestral to the present Bantu population. The material dates from as early as A.D. 270, but clear indications occur from A.D. 460 onwards.