The Iron Age Archaeology of Doornpoort, Winburg, Orange Free State : excavations : 2826DB 15 1-9
Jakob Dreyer · Navorsinge van die Nasionale Museum : Researches of the National Museum · 1992
The settlement pattern, pottery assemblage and type of hut of a stone-walled site complex are investigated. Finds are descriptionbed and discussed and calculations of stock numbers made. The site complex is compared with previous archaeological finds of the Late Iron Age of the area and elsewhere, and with the classification by Maggs for the central Highveld. The Doornpoort settlements comply with the descriptionptions of the spatial organisation of the Central Cattle Pattern, although the site complex did not produce the standardised and repeated arrangement of structures characterised by connecting walls at Type V, outer walls at Type N and bilobial courtyards at Type Z The decorated pottery assemblage corresponds in general with those from Caledon Valley, Type V and Type N. Doornpoort pottery shares style classes with these assemblages and could be part of the same tradition. The hut, as found at Doornpoort, shows affinities with huts at Type V and Type N. The Doornpoort site could be part of the variation within the Caledon Valley cluster, but also shows relation to sites elsewhere.