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DEADMANS HILL SLUICE PIT
WEST OF POVEY TRACK, DEADMANS HILL, WOMBAT STATE FOREST
DEADMANS HILL SLUICE PIT
WEST OF POVEY TRACK, DEADMANS HILL, WOMBAT STATE FOREST
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
Intact sluice hole/pit with tailraces
How is it significant?
Significance comes from its intactness, integrity and condition.
Why is it significant?
Historic remains associated with the Victorian gold rushes and the technology/heritage of mid to late 19th-century ground sluicing.
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DEADMANS HILL SLUICE PIT - History
In June 1855, the news of gold discoveries by Edward Hill as a spot called Red Hill saw a large rush set in along the course of the Lerderderg River and its tributaries. When the Blackwood Rush peaked in September 1855, there were some 13,000 diggers along the river and its tributaries. By the end of 1856, the bulk of Blackwood’s mining population had left for the Fiery Creek (Beaufort) Diggings. For those that remained, less than one tenth of the old population, profitable alluvial mining proved to be a struggle. Most of the alluvial miners focussed their attention on the bed of the Lerderderg River, which was worked time and time again using sluice boxes, pumps and water wheels. At first, the sluicing along the Lerderderg was carried out by a mixture of Chinese and European miners, but by the 1870s, it was increasingly monopolised by the Chinese.DEADMANS HILL SLUICE PIT - Interpretation of Site
Sluice hole produced through ground sluicing
Heritage Inventory Description
DEADMANS HILL SLUICE PIT - Heritage Inventory Description
Intact sluice pit with tail races and stacked stone piles. The site is overgrown
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