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Date: c1862 Type: Beacon Status: Extant   Click to view map Coordinates: 32°29'57.61" S 27°56'07.20" E Alt: 666m

This large carefully formed stone cairn is a survey pile on Sihota mountain, overlooking the Kei River. The pile was prepared as part of the first major trigonometrical survey of the Cape Colony and British Kaffraria. Capt. W.E. Bailey supervised a team of Royal Engineers, from 1859 to 1862, and they erected beacons and surveyed the coastal belt from Cape Agulhas to the Kei River. This particular survey pile has been superseded by a more recent concrete and steel trigonometrical survey beacon situated a short distance away to the north. Information provided by Denver Webb, Historian, August 2015. Ref: Cape of Good Hope, Report on the Trigonometrical Survey of a Portion of the Colony and British Kaffraria by Captain W. Bailey, R.E. Cape Town. Saul Solomon & Co. 1863. (Submitted by William MARTINSON)