Super User Omeka MetsExport Plugin The software used to generate this document is called Omeka MetsExport, which operates as a plugin for Omeka. Documentation can be found at http://github/MetsExport/ Limestone Quarry Immovable Culture Heritage The origins of the quarry link back to the early Dutch occupation of the island, where limestone from the quarry was used to build the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town, using prison labour to mine the stone. Throughout the Apartheid-era use of the site, prisoners were forced to work at the quarry. The rock was sometimes used for the island's roads, but was primarily used as a tool to occupy the prisoners' time. This was hard, manual labour in the heat and blinding conditions. Nelson Mandela was one of the prisoners who worked in this quarry, and his eyesight was permenantly damaged due to the blinding conditions of bright sun and white limestone. Today, the Stones of Rememberance mark the site as a symbol of what the prisoners experienced. The cairn was started by Nelson Mandela and fellow ex-prisoners during a reunion on the island after the end of Apartheid, in 1995. 1600s ec349@st-andrews.ac.uk Site 1483 26/04/2025 https://www.robben-island.org.za/banishment-1963-1995/, https://www.cape-town-heritage.co.za/heritage-site/robben-island-limestone-quarry.html cm x cm x cm current,-33.80548785344844,18.373891353476214; Building 3964 public Robben Island Museum 1 ec349@st-andrews.ac.uk Limestone Quarry TEXT