Melville Koppies, Johannesburg

Foto:  The Iron Age Furnace showing the tuyeres - clay pipes to which leather bellows were attached. It probably took two days of constant labour to reach and sustain the 1 400 degree Celsius temperature needed to smelt iron. Behind the furnace excavation to a depth of a metre revealed a Middle Stone living floor.     Melville… Continue reading Melville Koppies, Johannesburg