LAKE CONDAH - COMPLEX E
OFF LAKE CONDAH TRACK LAKE CONDAH, GLENELG SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
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LAKE CONDAH - COMPLEX E - History
Heritage Inventory History of Site: Incoming Europeans, many from the Scottish Highlands, used the country for various activities including gathering wattle bark, cattle and sheep grazing. None placed their major homesteads on the Stones. Instead shepherds and boundary riders built rough cottages from the abundant local stone.
LAKE CONDAH - COMPLEX E - Interpretation of Site
Heritage Inventory Interpretation: Possibly an outstation of the Grafton squatting run.
Heritage Inventory Description
LAKE CONDAH - COMPLEX E - Heritage Inventory Description
1. A partially collapsed basalt chimney (formerly designated as - Feature 1 , H7721-0224). 2. A rectangular line of footings in drystone wall enclosure with gate 'gap' in eastern side (formerly designated as - Feature 2, H7721-0224). Bluestone footings and chimney were probably associated with timber building or other semi - permanent structure. 3. A rectangular enclosure around Feature 1, has a gate at the S/E corner of the wall with possible metal hinge remains at the base of the wall (formerly designated as - Feature 3 , H7721-0224).Extensive bracken growth around base of chimney and along dry stone wall. Depression (surface) running along southern end of site may mark old track surface. 4. A circular dry stone wall structure, at the bottom of the sinkhole nearby (formerly designated as H7721-0225).5. A dry stone wall stockyard, 250 metres to the north (formerly designated as H7721-0226).
Heritage Inventory Significance: Regional (?)
Informants: Roy Vaughan (055) 784250, DCNR/nRecorded by: A.Murphy & D.Rhodes Date Recorded: 22FEB1990 Heritage Inventory Site Features: 1. Chimney, built from uncut basalt, with a tendency for square of flat rectangular stones with random rubble infill. The base is rectangular and the top is angled in to form a cone shape, about 4 metres from the ground. Laid in straight courses, mud being used as mortar. Traces of a white substance (lime, whitewash?) on the eastern side below the cone. The western side is collapsed, covering the hearth. No evidence for lining. Capping stones on the top. 1.42 x 2.43 metres at the base, 4 metres high.2. Basalt footings. A single course of uncut basalt footings, laid in a rectangular shape to the south of the chimney. These would seem to be the footings for a single room hut or the central section of a timber building. Laid in a shallow surface trench, without mortar. Square stones on the corners, 4.2 x 7.2 metres.3. Enclosure. Constructed using two walls angled towards each other, larger stones at the base, smaller at the top, infill, no coping stones. 50 - 60 centimetres thick, average height 85 centimetres. 90% in good condition.4. Dry stone wall structure. Crude construction with two rows of stones tapering inward with a rubble infill. 7-8 metres in diameter, 80 centimetres high, 40 - 45 centimetres thick. Fair condition. Function unknown.5. Dry stone wall enclosure with an internal dividing wall. There is a gateway in the north wall and the eastern wall continues past the gateway. Construction similar to above wall, except that this wall is laid in a deep trench, possibly for rabbit proofing. Coping stones present. The enclosure was probably a stock mustering yard. Height 1.6 metres, 80 centimetres thick at the base, 42 centimetres at the top. Enclosure walls are in good condition while the internal wall is in extremely poor condition.
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LAKE CONDAH - COMPLEX EVictorian Heritage Inventory
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