MCINNES ROAD ARTEFACT SCATTER
111 MCINNES ROAD TYNTYNDER, SWAN HILL RURAL CITY
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Statement of Significance
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MCINNES ROAD ARTEFACT SCATTER - History
The area of Swan Hill was first named in 1836 by Surveyor General Major Mitchell. From 1838 there were overland stock routes being followed through the area (Feldtmann 1973:2-3). Tyntynder Station was the first European settlement on this land. It was originally part of a settlement that included the area of Swan Hill. This property was subdivided in 1866 to become the Tyntynder and Swan Hill Stations (Spread borough and Anderson 1883:249). It was a sheep and cattle station which was successful very early on. There are reports of there being 1500 cattle and 52,000 sheep. The Murray River Valley gained the reputation of being a profitable area for pastoralism (Feldtmann 1973:18). The Tyntynder Station remained in the Beveridge family until 1876 when it was sold to George Holloway of Durham Ox (Feldtmann 1973:31). The ownership history as described in Spreadborough and Anderson (1983: 246 and 249) is outlined in the table below:
Date Owner
1845 Andrew Beveridge
5 Nov 1866 Andrew Beveridge (subdivision)
5 Dec 1866 William John Turner Clarke
23 Jan 1868 Walter Curr
26 Jan 1872 Andrew Beveridge of Woodburn, Kilmore
3 Dec 1872 Margaret Beveridge of Woodburn, Kilmore
21 Jan 1884 George Holloway and George Seward
The original farm house is still extant and is currently used as the building for the Tyntynder Homestead and Museum, a local history museum. It is currently located on the Murray Valley Highway, Beverford (Feltmann 1973:33). The construction of irrigation channels and the associated infrastructure commenced prior to 1905 under the management of the Swan Hill Irrigation Trust. The Swan Hill Irrigation Trust was merged into the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission in 1905. An intensification of the construction of irrigation infrastructure occurred throughout the region in the early 1920s. The channel which transects the site is likely to have been built within this period, although it is likely that there have been maintenance works since this time (Lavery pers.comm).
MCINNES ROAD ARTEFACT SCATTER - Interpretation of Site
The site is likely to have been associated either with the early stock routes that crossed the area or the early pastoralism in the region. It is likely that the artefact scatter is in a secondary location due to the construction of the channel, as the channel banks are often made from the fill which was removed to create the channel.
MCINNES ROAD ARTEFACT SCATTER - Archaeological Significance
The Mcinnes Road Domestic Artefact Scatter is of low archaeological significance as the site is composed of a low number of artefacts in a disturbed location.
MCINNES ROAD ARTEFACT SCATTER - Historical Significance
Criterion C: Potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of Victoria's cultural
history
The Mcinnes Road Domestic Artefact Scatter has a low potential to yield information that will
contribute to an understanding of Victoria's cultural history due to the small size of the artefact scatter
and the high level of disturbance of the surrounding area.
Heritage Inventory Description
MCINNES ROAD ARTEFACT SCATTER - Heritage Inventory Description
The site is a domestic artefact scatter and glass insulator located on the channel banks of an irrigation channel. The artefact scatter is composed of two pieces of glass and one piece of ceramic. One of the glass pieces is an olive green circular bottle bottom; the other is a piece of blue glass. The ceramic piece has "SUNSHIN .. .IRD561073/REGD 80L 3 ... " written on it. The artefact scatter is approximately 1.5 m by 1.5 m in size. The glass insulator is embedded in a tree on the opposite side of the channel and access track which transects the site, approximately 15 m from the artefact scatter. The insulator is embedded one metre off the ground on the northern side of the tree. Approximately 30 to the south' and 20 m to the west of the artefact scatter, there are farm buildings which are still in use.
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MCINNES ROAD ARTEFACT SCATTERVictorian Heritage Inventory
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