Mussel Point, Protected coastal area in Western Cape, South Africa

Mussel Point, also called Mike Taylor's Midden, is a shell midden on the West Coast of South Africa at 32°18′S 18°19′E. It measures at least 350 m long and 200 m wide, with a shell layer 1.0 to 1.5 m deep, built mostly of mussel shells together with barnacles, whelks, limpets, tortoise remains and fish and bird bones.

The location has been used by San communities for thousands of years who collected and processed shellfish there. Archaeological layers preserved from that time document generations of their coastal activities and subsistence practices.

The name Mike Taylor's Midden honours the person associated with the site, and the shells themselves are mostly mussels, with barnacles, whelks, limpets, tortoise remains, and fish and bird bones. Archaeologists have studied these deposits since the 1970s, and a scholarly debate continues over why the megamiddens were made and who the Later Stone Age people of the West Coast were.

The site lies at 32°18′S 18°19′E near Elands Bay and Lamberts Bay, reached by road on the West Coast; a GPS helps, as the mounds are low and easy to miss. It is an open, unprotected surface site, so walk around the shell deposits rather than over them and leave artifacts in place. The provincial heritage status of April 2009 protects it under South African law.

The site holds one of the largest concentrations of shell deposits accumulated over a relatively short time span in human history. This density of archaeological material makes it exceptionally valuable for understanding how coastal peoples lived in precolonial times.