TROGISCH'S REEF
GOVERNMENT ROAD KOOROOCHEANG, HEPBURN SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
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TROGISCH'S REEF - History
Heritage Inventory History of Site: Trogisch Reef, near German Gully, was opened in 1860. The reef receives little mention by the mining register, except for a reference in July 1861 to prospectors getting a kiln of quartz ready. The archaeological records suggests that the kilns on the site were associated with a battery. Old German reef, is the next reef south of Trogisch's (other side of gully). The mining register in December 1860 records that a site for a machinery dam and tramway had been granted for this reef.Heritage Inventory Description
TROGISCH'S REEF - Heritage Inventory Description
Quartz roasting kilns - On the north side of the gully is a set of small kilns that have been excavated into bedrock. Both kilns are 7ft diameter, at least 6ft deep, and have stone-retained fronts with intact portals. The bowls of the kilns have been burnt a characteristic red-orange colour. In the gully below the kilns are a stone fireplace and a stone blacksmith's forge. Benched platforms - Slightly to the east, and above the kilns, are two platforms. The smallest of the two has a well preserved stone fireplace; the largest, which is a mullock paddock, has a shaft and a machinery site (decaying bedlogs).Adit - At the base of the large platform is an open adit.Slum pond - In the gully near the adit is a quarried small slum pond and adjoining treated (cyanided) tailings dump. Reef workings - A short line of reef workings run north along the spur from the shaft. Associated with the surface workings are at least two hut sites. There is a strong possibility that the kilns are very early, probably constructed in the early 1860s.
Heritage Inventory Significance: The site has:Scientific significance - rare type of site, survival of adjoining kilns associated with a range of features associated with an early quartz mine. There is a strong possibility that the kilns are very early, probably constructed in the early 1860s. Archaeological potentialNetwork values - part of Yandoit Track network of sites - Scorpion Gully to Criterion Reef.SIGNIFICANCE RANKING: Regional
Recorded by: David Bannear
Heritage Inventory Site Features: Quartz roasting kilnsBenched platformsAditSlum pondReef workings
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TROGISCH'S REEFVictorian Heritage Inventory
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