Cape St Blaize Cave – Mosselbay

Cape St Blaize Cave

The Cape St. Blaize Cave, situated on the cliffs directly below the St. Blaize Lighthouse is an important archaeological site, and a popular point for whale and dolphin watching.

George Leith excavated it in 1888 (making it one of South Africa’s earliest archaeological excavations), as did T. Rupert Jones (1899), and A.J.H (John) Goodwin (in the 1920s).  More importantly, though, the Cave has revealed middens laid down by the San or Khoekhoen people in the period from about 200,000 years ago to the pre-colonial age (i.e. pre-1488).

More recently, parts of the Cave were explored in the late 2000s by scientists of the Mossel Bay Archaeology Project (MAP).  The MAP is the largest scientific project of its kind in the world today, and is studying the finds at various sites in the Southern Cape – most importantly, at the Pinnacle Point Caves (which are not open to the public).

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