The Sedan Beehive stone huts are a
provincial heritage site in
Lindley in the
Free State province of
South Africa
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.
In 1950 it was described in the
Government Gazette
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as
These huts are near the farm Sedan which is about west of
Lindley. They include some of the best-preserved examples of these huts. The walls were built of stones packed without any mortar in such a manner that successive courses overlapped inwards until the opening at the apex was small enough to be closed by a single large slab. For obvious reasons, the huts were generally small. Few of them exceeded an internal diameter of , and the height from floor to apex of the roof was barely . The only opening was the entrance at ground level usually about high and wide, so that it was necessary to enter the structure by crawling on one's stomach.
See also
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Beehive house
A beehive house is a building made from a circle of stones topped with a domed roof. The name comes from the similarity in shape to a straw beehive.
Occurrences
The ancient Bantu used this type of house, which was made with mud, poles, and c ...
References
Archaeological sites in South Africa
Buildings and structures in the Free State (province)
Former populated places in South Africa
Huts
Ruins in South Africa
Historic sites in South Africa
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