WILDBOAR BATTERY
BENAMBRA-CORRYING ROAD NARIEL VALLEY, TOWONG SHIRE
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WILDBOAR BATTERY - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
Well up the slopes of the Wildboar, away from most of the other Zulu Creek mines, the Wildboar Co. in 1884 erected a 4-head battery, with wooden-spoked wheels, portable steam engine, and timber-clad boiler. It was the only mine on the Zulu field to employ steam power. Morrow calls that engine, which remains on the site today, 'possibly the oldest engine of its type in Australia'.
Not much is known of the progress or success of the Wildboar mine: it was still crushing with fair success in 1886.
WILDBOAR BATTERY - Interpretation of Site
Heritage Inventory Interpretation:
Heritage Inventory Description
WILDBOAR BATTERY - Heritage Inventory Description
Features of the Wildboar battery site are a portable steam engine and the remains of a battery.
Heritage Inventory Significance: The site has scientific significance because of age and rarity of machinery.
Heritage Inventory Key Components: Portable steam engine - Resting on its side is a single-cylinder engine. Its maker's plate reads: 'Clayton Shuttleworth & Co., Lincoln Engineers, 1858 No. 2840'. Its fly-wheel and some fittings, including its governor, are still in place, but the boiler's outer casing and flue are missing. Wheel hubs, finely crafted with holes for spokes, indicate that the engine once had wooden-spoked wheels. Battery - Battery box and cam shaft. The stamper stems have been removed. Heritage Inventory Site Features:
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WILDBOAR BATTERYVictorian Heritage Inventory
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