Dwellings

Illustration showing a reconstructed dwelling. Illustrated by Valerie Maggs, published in Maggs 1976, "Iron Age Communities of the southern Highveld", p.241.

Dwellings were round with mud walls. They had one opening for a door with no windows. Its thatch roof was supported by several wooden beams anchored into a veranda that went around the dwelling. Some dwellings were located inside stone enclosures with wide entrances