ALLUVIAL WORKINGS WESTON HILL
HAPPY VALLEY-HAPPY VALLEY CROSSING ROAD HAPPY VALLEY, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE
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ALLUVIAL WORKINGS WESTON HILL - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
27.04.1860: several parties are making good wages.
27.04.1860 : very good patches are got occasionally on the Happy Valley Hills, such as at Knight's, Weston's, and Dreamer's; and the gullies are being turned over from the surface to the bottom; an Italian on Knight's Hill may get over 2000 pounds.
27.04.1861 : some tunnelling parties are getting encouraging returns at Westons Hill.Heritage Inventory Description
ALLUVIAL WORKINGS WESTON HILL - Heritage Inventory Description
An area of intensive workings covering 500 by 300 metres. There are hundreds of shafts only 5-10m apart. The open shafts among the workings are 1.0x0.45m by approximately 9m deep./nThe most interesting of the features commence from the head of the gully where an adit runs into the southern side of the gully. There are two fingers of mullock each 1.0m high and approximately 15m long radiating from the mouth of the adit.Twenty-five metreswest of the adit there is a breeched dam wall 25m long and 0.8m high with a horse puddling machine below the dam wall. The puddler, constructed by building up a mound of earth, is in very poor condition. The trench is nearly full. A further 20 metres west there is an open-cut 25-30m in diameter and m deep with two adits in its western wall. Open trenching continues west from the entrance to the open-cut for a distance of 50 metres. This leads into a wide sluiced gully, which appears to have been worked perhaps in the 1930's or even more recently. The gully is actively eroding, is up to 25m wide by 3m deep, and there are many adits evident in its vertical walls. This wide and badly eroded section of gully is 200m long. From where it joins the main east branching gully of the Happy Valley Creek, the erosion is not as severe. For another 170 metres the gully has eroded into a steep sided trench 3-4 m wide and 3m deep. At the end of this eroded section a collapsed adit runs east into the bank of the gully. The adit is 25m east of the gully. A mullock heap 20m long and up to 3m high runs from the adit entrance toward the gully. Quartz wash is scattered around this site. Another open-cut is located 50m east of this last adit. It is 30x20m and up to 3m deep.
Heritage Inventory Significance: Local, with the possibility of a ranking as regional
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CENTAUR NO.1Victorian Heritage Inventory
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CENTAUR NO.2Victorian Heritage Inventory
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ALLUVIAL WORKINGS WESTON HILLVictorian Heritage Inventory
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