Sluicing Dam, Victoria Gully, Kara Kara State Park, STUART MILL
Victoria Gully, Kara Kara State Park STUART MILL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
Remains at this site which date from the 1860s and after include a large silted sluicing dam with breached embankment, 90m long and 2m high, excavated paddocks, and shallow alluvial sinkings. The features are in comparatively good condition and have integrity which, together with nearby sites demonstrate different types of shallow alluvial mining.
The Sluicing Dam , Victoria Gully is historically and scientifically important at a LOCAL level as a substantially intact example of an important gold mining technique. Gold mining sites are of crucial importance for the pivotal role they have played since 1851 in the development of Victoria.
Overall the Sluicing Dam , Victoria Gully is of LOCAL significance.
RECOMMENDED LEVEL OF SIGNIFICANCE: LOCAL
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Sluicing Dam, Victoria Gully, Kara Kara State Park, STUART MILL - Physical Description 1
Remains at this site which date from the 1860s and after include a large silted sluicing dam with breached embankment, 90m long and 2m high, excavated paddocks, and shallow alluvial sinkings. The features are in comparatively good condition and have integrity which, together with nearby sites demonstrate different types of shallow alluvial mining.
DESCRIPTION & INTERPRETATION:
Victoria and associated gullies. There are patches and bands of shallow alluvial sinkings in most of the gullies that drain into the west side of Cherry Tree Creek. The following sites are only a sample of what exists in the area.
Site 59.2. Sluicing dam (probably dates to the mid to late nineteenth century). Sluicing dam. At the head of Victoria Gully, in the most southerly arm of the gully, is a large silted dam. The dam's embankment is approximately 90 metres long and two metres high. At both ends of the embankment are large excavated paddocks, presumably associated with the construction of the dam. The embankment has been breached. In the gully above the dam are patches of shallow alluvial sinkings.
INTEGRITY/CONDITION: All the sites have good integrity.
CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE:
Sites 59.0 to 59.3 have :
. Accumulative Scientific Significance-not only are the sites relatively undisturbed, but together they demonstrate different types of shallow alluvial mining. The significance of this group of alluvial sites is increased by the inclusion of the nearby cemented lead workings (Site 58.1) into the network.
Heritage Study and Grading
Northern Grampians - Shire of Northern Grampians - Stage 2 Heritage Study
Author: Wendy Jacobs, Vicki Johnson, David Rowe, Phil Taylor
Year: 2004
Grading: Local
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