HADDON WHIM AND HORSE PUDDLER SITES
35 BUTTERWORTH ROAD NINTINGBOOL, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE
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HADDON WHIM AND HORSE PUDDLER SITES - History
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HADDON WHIM AND HORSE PUDDLER SITES - Heritage Inventory Description
There are two sections to this site, which is located just to the north of Reform GM No.6 Shaft. Each section of the site contains a horse puddler and whim platform(s). One section is 40m north of the other. The southern section covers an area 40m by 20m, and appears from a distance to be a single mound of material about 0.6m high. Within this mound is a horse puddler 5m in diameter. This puddler is in poor condition, the central pillar has been reduced to a hump and the trench is saucer shaped. There has been some recent digging in the trench. The flat topped mound north-west of the puddler is rounded on its northern side and is probably a whim platform. The depression where the shaft was located is immediately south of the whim platform. The majority of this southern section of the site is covered with quartz wash and earth, it is quite disturbed and is covered by a stand of mature eucalypts./nThe northern section of the site consists of two whim platforms associated depressions and a horse puddler, all of which are reasonably well defined and in better condition than the features at the southern section of the site. The horse puddler is 6m in diameter, and 1m high. Although the central pillar is collapsed, the trench is still quite obvious. The first whim platform and associated depression is 5m north - east of the puddler. It is 8m in diameter and is 1.5m high. The second platform is 3m south-east of the first. It is 10m in diameter, 1m high and has a slight depression in the centre. This section of the site is grassed and there is no indication that these two flat topped mounds are anything but whims. However it is interesting that one is larger than the other, perhaps suggesting two periods of operation.
Heritage Inventory Signficance: Local
Physical Conditions: Heritage Inventory Description: Fair; the whim platforms are quite sound, and the concentration of features is interesting.
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HADDON WHIM AND HORSE PUDDLER SITESVictorian Heritage Inventory
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