| Melville Koppies Nature Reserve | |
| Location: | South Africa |
| Nearest City: | Johannesburg |
| Coordinates: | -26.1675°N 28.002°W |
| Area: | 42.93ha |
| Established: | 2 September 1959 |
| Hiking Trails: | 3 |
Melville Koppies is a nature reserve and a Johannesburg City Heritage Site in Johannesburg, South Africa.[1] The word 'koppie' means small hill.
Iron Age artefacts can still be found at the site.[2] Visitors can walk or hike in the Koppies, and tours are offered.[3] Neighbouring it is the Johannesburg Botanical Garden.
In 1963 Revil Mason, excavating at the Koppies, found an Iron Age furnace for smelting iron ore, either in a bowl or sunken furnace with carbon dating of charcoal found at varies levels at the site shows it would have been in use at various times between 1060AD and 1580AD.[4] Another more modern Iron Age furnace was found on the northern slopes dating to the 18th/19th centuries.[4]