Puddler and Dam No. 1, Victoria Gully, Kara Kara State Park, STUART MILL
Victoria Gully, Kara Kara State Park STUART MILL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
Remains at this site which date from the 1860s and after include a puddler, dam, mounds of wash, narrow band of shallow sinkings, hill slope surfacing and shallow open cutting. They are in comparatively good condition and have integrity which together with the nearby sites demonstrate different types of shallow alluvial mining.
The Puddler and Dam No. 1, Victoria Gully is historically and scientifically important at a LOCAL level as a substantially intact example of an important gold mining technique. Gold mining sites are of crucial importance for the pivotal role they have played since 1851 in the development of Victoria.
Overall the Puddler and Dam No. 1 , Victoria Gully is of LOCAL significance.
RECOMMENDED LEVEL OF SIGNIFICANCE: LOCAL
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Puddler and Dam No. 1, Victoria Gully, Kara Kara State Park, STUART MILL - Physical Description 1
Remains at this site which date from the 1860s and after include a puddler, dam, mounds of wash, narrow band of shallow sinkings, hill slope surfacing and shallow open cutting. They are in comparatively good condition and have integrity which together with the nearby sites demonstrate different types of shallow alluvial mining.
Victoria and associated gullies. There are patches and bands of shallow alluvial sinkings in most of the gullies that drain into the west side of Cherry Tree Creek. The following sites are only a sample of what exists in the area.
Site 59.0. Puddler, dam and associated alluvial workings (surfacing and sinkings). All features probably date to the mid to late nineteenth century.
Puddler and dam. 400 metres up (west) the first gully along Cherry Tree Track from its junction with Mount Separation Track is a small breached dam. On the southern end of the dam's embankment is a very weathered puddler. The puddler's inner mound and puddling trench are only just distinguishable and no pivot post is visible.
There are several mounds of wash lying around the dam.
Alluvial sinkings. A well defined, but quite narrow band of shallow sinkings, runs west from the dam and puddler. At the head of the gully the workings become more intense and are associated with some hill slope surfacing and shallow open cutting.
INTEGRITY/CONDITION: All the sites have good integrity.
CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE:
Sites 59.0 to 59.3 have :
. Accumulative Scientific Significance-not only are the sites relatively undisturbed, but together they demonstrate different types of shallow alluvial mining. The significance of this group of alluvial sites is increased by the inclusion of the nearby cemented lead workings (Site 58.1) into the network.
Heritage Study and Grading
Northern Grampians - Shire of Northern Grampians - Stage 2 Heritage Study
Author: Wendy Jacobs, Vicki Johnson, David Rowe, Phil Taylor
Year: 2004
Grading: Local
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