Coldstream, Eastern Cape
Coldstream is a village in Sarah Baartman District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
The village lies east of Plettenberg Bay on the Tsitsikamma coast. The area is famous for a burial stone excavated here in 1910, depicting a prehistoric artist holding brush-feather and palette, indicating that rock paintings were being executed in South Africa some 2,000 years ago. Said to be named after a cold stream flowing past.
References
- ^ "Main Place Coldstream". Census 2011.
- ^ "Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)". Human Science Research Council. p. 119.