One of the oddities on the Suikerboschfontein Hiking Trail is a number of stone walled structures, one of which is grandiosely referred to as the Dying Sun Chariot. By implication, the function of that circular settlement is alluding to some religious or astronomical function much like Stonehenge in Wiltshire, UK. The only explanation that is proffered for their existence is transparently “exotic” with apparently no credible evidence to substantiate the assumptions.
Even the Kaapsehoop Hiking Trail has its own stone circle too small to function as a settlement known as Adam’s Calendar after its supposed function .
Who constructed these little-known structures and when but, more importantly, why?
Will a new publication by Tim Maggs and Alex Schoeman finally settle this enigma and usher in a revised postulation?
Main picture: An aerial photograph of these structures reveals their extent