Plovers Lake Cave is a fossil-bearing breccia-filled cavity in South Africa.

"Bob" Brain and Francis Thackeray of the Transvaal Museum (now known as the Northern Flagship Institute) in the "Outer Deposits", and the second by Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand and Steve Churchill of Duke University between 2000 and 2004 in the "Inner Deposits".

In the Outer Deposits, Brain and Thakeray discovered a very fine fossil baboon that had survived a leopard or saber-toothed cat attack, as evidenced by a healed wound over the eye.

[3] Plovers Lake is a large series of deposits formed along huge fissures in a checkerboard pattern.

The Outer Deposits have been dated to around 1.0 million years old based on the size of porcupines recovered.