Site Represents a site. Prim Media 3964 Stewardship Robben Island Museum Contact ec349@st-andrews.ac.uk Status public Institutional nature Museum, Ecomuseum, Extended Museum, Territorial Museum, Cultural Center, Memory House, e-Museum, etc Building Condition 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Limestone Quarry Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. Government of South Africa Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived is51102025 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource ec349@st-andrews.ac.uk Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1483 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,-33.80548785344844,18.373891353476214; Description An account of the resource 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. Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). 26/04/2025 References A related resource that is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the described resource. https://www.robben-island.org.za/banishment-1963-1995/, https://www.cape-town-heritage.co.za/heritage-site/robben-island-limestone-quarry.html Extent The size or duration of the resource. cm x cm x cm Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1600s Subject The topic of the resource Immovable Culture Heritage Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Data Provider The name or identifier of the organisation that contributes data to Europeana. Limestone Quarry Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT Robben Island