Barkly West Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
town in the Northern Cape, South Africa
About Barkly West
Canteen Kopje, located in Barkly West, is the site of industrialization of South Africa in that diamonds were discovered here in 1869 and it became the first alluvial diamond diggings in South Africa. Also known as the archaeological hot spot of the world, this site contains hundreds of thousands of artefacts from its earlier inhabitants- the Thlaping tribe. Later in 1925 a digger found eleven fragments of a human skull, known as the Canteen Kopje Skull, which was later described inNatureby Robert Broom in 1929. The steel girdered toll bridge, the first to ford the Vaal River, was transported in sections from the United Kingdom (by sea, rail and, over the last more than 100 km by ox wagon) and erected across the Vaal in 1885. A steel plate gives details of its manufacture: "Westwood, Baill
Where to Stay in Barkly West
- 🏨Rooftop B&B
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