Hall 1975

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2018, using material provided by Gavin Whitelaw and eThembeni Cultural Heritage Management: In 1975 Martin Hall, an ethno-archaeologist, who was completing his PhD at the University of Cambridge and who worked at the Natal Museum from 1975 to 1980, excavated Midden 3 as a part of a pilot project. Hall was granted a permit, per/1/156, "for excavation and removal of archaeological material from archaeological sites in the Umfolosi catchment river area, Zululand, for purposes of study and preservation". It was granted 10 November 1975, and lapsed 30 Nov 1978. Some of the material that has been incorporated into Hall's accessioned boxes of material were excavated by Tim Maggs in 1973. Where possible, the FHYA arranged the material external to the Hall material into a Maggs series and further 1973 subseries. Notably, the box labelled 75/139.021, containing the isicoco burnishing stone, is sitting with the Hall 1975 material, as there seems to be some Hall material mixed in the Maggs material in this box. The KZNM has used the museum's index cards to produce a succinct digital record of the contents of the boxes excavated by Martin Hall in 1975. This is located within the KZNM's Asset Register. eThembeni was tasked with photographing the contents of a randomly chosen single sorting tray for each type of undiagnostic and diagnostic material, and for each field season. The FHYA has not endeavoured to check precisely how eThembeni interpreted this specification. The FHYA arranged this material into a 1975 'subseries' in which 'files' sit. These files contain digital 'items' which consist of the boxes and their contents.]