The Barrack Street well: images of a Cape Town household in the nineteenth century

Hall, M; Halkett, D; Klose, J; Ritchie, G; Poggenpoel, C

Abstract

This paper describes the results of excavation of well deposits from Barrack Street, Cape Town. The sequence starts with an assemblage dated to the late eighteenth century and continues, with a clear stratigraphy, until the late nineteenth century. Artefact assemblages reflect changes from a domestic to a commercial building, and from the period when the Cape was under the control of the Dutch East India Company through the establishment of the Cape as a British colony.

Citation

Hall, M., Halkett, D., Klose, J., Ritchie, G., & Poggenpoel, C. (1990). The Barrack Street well: images of a Cape Town household in the nineteenth century. South African archaeological bulletin, 45(152), 73-92

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 1990
• Deposit Date: Dec 10, 2009
• Journal: South African Archaeological Bulletin
• Print ISSN: 0038-1969
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 152
• Pages: 73-92
• Publisher URL: http://www.jstor.org/pss/3887966