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MONUMENTS
AND HISTORICAL SITES
CHIRUNDU FOSSIL FOREST
Just off the main Lusaka Chirundu road, not
far from Chirundu are fossil trees belonging to the Karoo period and are about 50 000
years old.
COLLIER
MONUMENT
At the Roan Antelope Copper Mine in
Luanshya set amid the original outcrop where in June, 1902, the prospecter
William Collier shot an antelope and first dicovered copper at what is now the Roan
Antelope Mine.
DAG
HAMMERSKJOLD
MEMORIAL
This marks the spot, now in the
Ndola West Forest Reserve where the aircraft carrying Dag Hammerskjold, author and
former Secretary General of the United Nations, crashed on the 18th September 1961. To
commemorate his death, a small cairn has been built in the centre of a simple memorial
garden and a site museum has been opened to the public.
FORT
MONZE
West of
Monze, this fort was one of the earliest colonial police posts established in the
country just before the turn of the century. There is a cemetary of the graves of those
policemen who manned the fort.
KASAMBA
STREAM
GRINDING
GROOVES
On the western shore of
Lake Bangweulu, just south of Samfya, is an outcrop of rock which bears a large
number of artificial grinding grooves dating back possibly to the Iron Age. It is thought
they were used for grinding and polishing axes.
KUNDABWIKA
ROCK
PAINTING
A large rock bearing an elaborate schematic painting in
red, lies 96 kms from Mporokoso in the Northern Province
LUNSEMFA
WONDER
GORGE
At the junction of the Lunsemfwa and Mkushi
Rivers, is a site of great beauty where both rivers have cut narrow gorges over 300m into
the Karoo sedementary rocks and presents one of the finest and most spectacular views to
be found in Zambia.
MKOMO
ROCK
SHELTER
To the north of the Great East Road, sixty
four kilometers west of Chipata. Rock paintings dating back to
the Iron Age
MUMWE
STREAM
ROCK
These engravings in the Mwense district are thought to be
of great historical importance.
NACHIKUFU
CAVE
This cave in
Mpika depicts some of the
most interesting rock paintings in the country and is the site of a field museum
exhibiting a fascinating sequence from the Stone Age in Northern Zambia some 18 000 years
ago to the recent Iron Age.
NIAMKOLO
CHURCH
On the shore of
Lake Tanganyika about
kilometer and a half to the east of Mpulungu, this church was built by the London
Missionary Society in 1895 and is the oldest surviving stone built church in Zambia.
NKALA
FORTIFIED
CAMP
Just outside the borders of the
Kafue National Park at the top of Kapilika Nakalomwe Hill, built as a police camp in
1901. The plan of the fort can still be seen from the ruined walls
NSEFU
CAVE
AND
ROCK
PAINTING
These painting near Kanona can be seen clearly
from outside the fence and anyone wishing to enter the cave may do so on payment of a
small fee to the caretaker. The main cave contains evidence of occupation during the Stone
Age and the paintings are the most extensive to be seen at any single site in Zambia.
NSALU
CAVE
&
ROCK
PAINTING
This semi-circular cave, cut into Nsalu hills contains
some of the best examples of Africas schematic rock paintings. It stretches about 20
metres wide, 20 metres deep and eight metres high. Excavations carried out in the
1940s showed the site was first occupied by middle Stone Age people although the
majority of remains discovered relate to the hunting people of the late Stone Age and date
back from about 12000 years ago to 1000 AD. The significance of the schematic drawings at
Nsalu remains a mystery. Some archaeologists believe they were connected with initiation
ceremonies but research into the subject continues. Its a short detour off the GNR.
30 kms north of Kanona turn left, travel a further fourteen kilometres, turn right. This
road leads to the caves in rugged hilly country.
VON LETTOW VORBECK MEMORIAL
At the North end of the Chambeshi River bridge
on the main road from Mpika to Kasama, marks the spot on which General Von Lettow Vorbeck,
Commander of the German forces in East Africa during the 1914 war, surrendered.
Incorporated in the monument is an 1890 breach loading field gun of the type used by the
German army in this campaign.
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