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Maanhaarrand in the West Rand Region of Gauteng, South Africa
Maanhaarrand is situated in an important archaeological area which takes its name from a distinctive ridge in the area, resembling the mane of a lion. The ridge originates from dikes of diabase rock which thrust up through the floor of the Magalies River valley. The weathered boulders of the ridge provided material for the Stone Age artists and Iron Age village builders who once inhabited the region. Prehistoric rock engravings have been found in the area, as have, in big ash heaps among the ruins of villages, the remains of the humans, their pottery and the bones of the animals they had slaughtered for food.

Maanhaarrand is also a syenite dyke in geological terms, the highest point and principal watershed in the Moot. Intrusions of syenite "penetrated the Magaliesberg from the Pilanesberg volcano as molten material which radiated out from the crater, forming dykes several hundred kilometres long: one such dyke runs through Breedtsnek and Maanhaarrand.

 

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