The springs are situated on the southern edge of the Kafue Flats in Lochinvar National Park, one Kilomtre west of the Lodge which is reached by a good signposted road from Monze, some forty-kilometres distant.

The site was the scene of extensive excavation in 1960 by Dr Creighton Gabel and in 1963-64 Dr Brian Fagan and Mr Francis van Noten. Low mounds beside the springs were demonstrated to have been inhabited during the third and second millennia BC by groups of Late Stone Age people. The result of the excavations have been of very great importance in the investigation of the Central African Late Stone Age. Many human skeletons were discovered and a wide range of organic remains was exceptionally well preserved, making possible a detailed reconstruction of the hunting and gathering economy of the site’s prehistoric inhabitants.

A display of finds from the site has been installed at the Lodge at Lochinvar, and detailed accounts of the excavations have been published under the titles Stone Age Hunters of the Kafue by C Gabel, and the Hunter Gatherers of Gwisho by B Fagan and van Noten.