share and draw inspiration from them. It also appears that places selected for making engravings were chosen for their significance in relation to these beliefs. Stone circles and stone artefacts Stone circles and clearings, containing Later Stone Age occupation or activity debris, on and around the hill were noted by Stow in the 1870s. One, near the crest of the hill, was excavated in 1983 by Beaumont, yielding two Later Stone Age aggregates – a Wilton assemblage overlain by Ceramic Later Stone Age, with associated radiocarbon readings of 1790±60 BP and 1230±80 BP. J.H. Power had picked up here a pressure-flaked tanged and barbed stone arrowhead – this being an example of distinctive artefacts which occur as unusual "trace objects" at a number of post-2000 BP sites from Lesotho into the western interior, which have been interpreted as stone skeuomorphs of iron originals. Kousop’s residence A comment made to Louis Péringuey in 1909 by missionary Westphal refers to the last Khoe-San occupants of the site being “'Scheelkoos' and his family" – a rare reference to a named Khoe-San individual from the protocolonial frontier era in South Africa. Scheelkoos, also known as Kousop, led resistance to colonial settlement in the region, and was killed with 130 of his followers, in a counter-attack, on the banks of the nearby Vaal River in 1858. Colonial era sites Colonial era ruins and middens, of hotel sites dating from the 1870s-early twentieth century, and those linked with twentieth century farm-workers, occur on the fringes of the hill and are subject to on-going research. !Xun and Khwe ownership of the farm Since 1996 the farm of Wildebeest Kuil has been owned by the !Xun and Khwe communities. These two San groups, speaking distinct Khoe-San languages and having different histories, had been caught up in political turmoil in Angola in the 1960s and 1970s, and subsequently in Namibia. In 1990, at the time of Namibia's independence, some 4000 of them (men then employed by the South African Defence Force together with their families) were flown to a tent-town at Schmidtsdrift, west of Kimberley. This area was subsequently awarded to its former Tswana owners in a land claim, forcing the !Xun and Khwe to move again. Having purchased Wildebeest Kuil and adjoining farms, resettlement from the Schmidtsdrift tent towns to a new housing scheme at Platfontein on the outskirts of Kimberley took place in 2003–5. As the owners