Comprises 2,500 rock engravings (petroglyphs) on 212 slabs of rock and 13 panals containing numerous rock paintings. A variety of stone artefacts and stone tool manufacturing debris can also be found there. A hard patina both served as ground for the engravings and protects them now. Scherz (1975, p. 174-209) lists 17 sites of paintings. The most impressive engravings include a lion, an elephant and a giant giraffe, a "fable animal", the works at the "place of ceremonies" and symbolic engravings. Information shelter erected in 1992-1993, panels fixed in 1993-1994. Platforms, steps and steel tubbing stanchions and railings. Bufferzone surrounding the site, measures 9,194 ha and has been gazetted as conservation area. The engravings have been known before WWI, discovered by R. Maack, but rediscovered when the area was opened up for farming after WWII. Severe drought caused the Afrikaans speaking people to move into this area which had been inhibited by Europeans before. The spring yielded just enough water for few heads of cattle belonging to the settler farmer, D Levin. He tried to enhance the spring by sinking a well but it remained unchanged, hence the name Twyfelfontein (Twyfel meanind doubt). Viereck and Rudner (1957, p.24) associate the paintings with the Wilton people and the engravings with the Bergdama.