About: Burchell's Shelter

Burchell’s Shelter is a small rock overhang and archaeological site located in a kloof in the at Campbell in the Northern Cape, South Africa. As an archaeological site it has a shallow deposit containing late Holocene, mainly nineteenth century remains. Further interest in the shelter derives from the existence of an eyewitness description by the traveller William Burchell of the last Stone Age hunter-gatherers who inhabited the shelter. Hence it presented an opportunity, recognised by archaeologist , to examine the occupation of the shelter from both an historical and an archaeological point of view.