The construction as a whole is somewhat similar to that seen in some of the buildings in the Valley of Ruins at Zimbabwe. Straight joints and tilted blocks, long and shallow in form, and a disregard of courses, are the principal features in the workmanship shown in these ruins. There is no mural decoration.
APPENDIX
NOTE A
GREAT ZIMBABWE
NOTICE TO VISITORS
1. The only outspan is between Havilah Camp and the south side of the Acropolis Hill.
2. No trees or bush on the Zimbabwe reserve to be cut by visitors or their native servants. Cut firewood is provided on the outspan.
3. No visitor shall take into any ruin any spades or other tools for the purpose of prospecting for relics or gold, or use the same within the reserve. No excavated soil shall be panned, nor any stones removed from the ruins. Surveys can only be made on the written authority of the chief secretary.
4. Visitors are requested not to touch or damage old cement work, or shake any ancient monoliths, or climb on walls or places marked “Dangerous,” and are asked to assist the Government in the preservation of the ruins by giving immediate notice to the magistrate at Victoria, or to any official in charge of the ruins, of any of the above offences being committed.
5. The provisions of the “Ancient Monuments Protection Ordinance, 1902,” with regard to the illegal possession of relics, prospecting for same, or damage to ruins, and the consequent penalties of fines and imprisonment for such offences will be strictly enforced.