NORTH ARM OF STANDARD GULLY ALLUVIAL SINKINGS MIDWAY BETWEEN THIS AND NUGGETTY GULLY
POSSUM GULLY ROAD LINTON, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE
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NORTH ARM OF STANDARD GULLY ALLUVIAL SINKINGS MIDWAY BETWEEN THIS AND NUGGETTY GULLY - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
MACCLESFIELD COMPANY, Linton
21.08.1861: resolved to divide their claim into 124 shares of £10 each; have taken up an extended claim and are negotiating for a machine from Mount Misery.
29.08.1857: Linton - Wardy Yallock: a large proportion of the population has joined the rush to Mt. Ararat and business is dull; but there are still 2000 Chinese at Linton; several new puddling machines have been erected in Bloomers and Candlestick Gullies.
08.07.1858: At Linton population is 2000 including 400 Chinese; Bloomers and Nuggetty Gullies have 4 puddling machines and accompanying dams.
15.04.1859: there are several puddling machines in Bloomers and Candlestick Gullies, one was recently sold to the Chinese for £120; the Chinese are working in this district and more are arriving for the winter when the rains provide a good living in the Hard Hills.
09.1859: mining was confined to the rich shallow gullies for the first 3 years, the best known were Nuggetty, Bloomer's, Wet Flat, and Candlestick; the deep ground was not properly opened until 2 years ago.Heritage Inventory Description
NORTH ARM OF STANDARD GULLY ALLUVIAL SINKINGS MIDWAY BETWEEN THIS AND NUGGETTY GULLY - Heritage Inventory Description
/nSite 30.02: This is an area of small scale deep lead alluvial sinkings. There are 10 groups of sinkings approximately 20 to 30 m apart, with each group covering an area of at least 10 m by 10 m. Of special interest among these workings are 2 whim platforms and one larger mullock heap which is 5 m long and 1.5 m high. The whim platforms are approximately 10 m in diameter and are surrounded by trenches approximately 1 m wide and 0.8 m deep. Both are adjacent to a shaft and one also adjoins a horse puddler. The extremities of the whim and puddler site have been substantially disturbed by people fossicking for gold. These structures are in fair to poor condition as a result of the fossicking and/or because of the condition of the ground. The internal walls of the puddler have substantially collapsed. The gully west of these sinkings contains a breeched dam and some shallow sinkings, there are also shallow sinkings in the gully to the east of the workings. There is a small collapsed adit at the head of the gully west of the workings. Two open deep shafts are located 200 m north of the workings and appear to be on Macclesfield Reef. The water race that joins this and Site No. 30.01 appears fairly recent and may have been constructed using either the blade of a grader or other piece of earth moving equipment.
Heritage Inventory Significance: Sites have local significance, because of the condition of these sites. Further work may alter this to regional.
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STANDARD GULLY SHALLOW ALLUVIAL SINKINGS ON NORTH SIDEVictorian Heritage Inventory
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STANDARD GULLY DEEP ALLUVIAL SINKINGS AND SHALLOW SINKINGS SOUTH SIDE OF GULLYVictorian Heritage Inventory
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NUGGETTY GULLY ALLUVIAL SINKINGS (1)Victorian Heritage Inventory
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