The Sedan Beehive stone huts are a

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in Lindley in the Free State province of

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. In 1950 it was described in the

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as These huts are near the farm Sedan which is about west of Lindley. They include some of the best-preserved examples of these huts. The walls were built of stones packed without any mortar in such a manner that successive courses overlapped inwards until the opening at the apex was small enough to be closed by a single large slab. For obvious reasons, the huts were generally small. Few of them exceeded an internal diameter of , and the height from floor to apex of the roof was barely . The only opening was the entrance at ground level usually about high and wide, so that it was necessary to enter the structure by crawling on one's stomach.

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Archaeological sites in South Africa Buildings and structures in the Free State (province) Former populated places in South Africa Huts Ruins in South Africa Historic sites in South Africa {{Africa-archaeology-stub

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