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Date: n.d. Type: Memorial Status: Extant   Click to view large map Coordinates: 32°45'48.62" S 25°48'09.29" E Alt: 584m

See more photographs This site commemorates three separate heritage related items: The Pringle party's rest camp. The Slachtersnek Rebellion and The Roodewal Fort. Grave of the Van Aardts : 1825 and 1856. Transcript of the Pringle party plaque: THE SCOTTISH PARTY OF 1820 SETTLERS LED BY THOMAS PRINGLE CHANGED WAGONS, DRIVERS AND OXEN AT ROODEWAL MILITARY CAMP IN THIS VICINITY AND AFTER A REST OF TWO DAYS CROSSED THE GREAT FISH RIVER NEAR HERE AND PROCEEDED ON THEIR JOURNEY TO THEIR SETTLEMENT IN THE BAVIAANS RIVER VALLEY. Transcript of the Roodewal Fort plaque: This is the terrain of Fort Roodewal from where the grandson of a French Huguenot, Lt. Frans Rousseau, who was in command of the post, left on the morning of the 9th of October 1815 with 8 "pandoere" (Cape Coloured soldiers) to arrest Freek Bezuidenhout. Little did the young Lieutenant know that the order he gave the next day to shoot Freek Bezuidenhout after he resisted arrest, would be the begining of one of the most unfortunate incidents in the history of South Africa; The Slachtersnek Rebellion