LAKE CONDAH - COMPLEX C
OFF LAKE CONDAH TRACK LAKE CONDAH, GLENELG SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
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LAKE CONDAH - COMPLEX C - History
Heritage Inventory History of Site: Incoming Europeans, many from the Scottish Highlands, used the country for various activities including gathering wattle bark, cattle and sheep grazing. None placed their major homesteads on the Stones. Instead shepherds and boundary riders built rough cottages from the abundant local stone.
LAKE CONDAH - COMPLEX C - Interpretation of Site
Heritage Inventory Interpretation: Possibly an outstation of the Grafton squatting run.
Heritage Inventory Description
LAKE CONDAH - COMPLEX C - Heritage Inventory Description
1. Dry stone wall building. Building divided into two rooms with internal bluestone walls. Internal wall recess on the north east wall (previously Lake Condah 5 - H7221-0227)2. Dry stone basalt wall enclosure/unidentified structure. No divisional walls. Back wall is part of the circular dry stone wall enclosing the whole area (previously Lake Condah 6 - H7221- 00228).3. Dry stone wall, forming the north east side of enclosure (feature 2) and running NW to connect with the post and wire fence around 150 m west of Murphy's Hut (previously Lake Condah Dry Stone Wall 1 G, H7221-0247).4. Circular-shaped dry stone wall encircling a large plain. Encloses an area c 400 metres east west, by 350 metres north south. Two sites, feature 1 (building and feature 2 (dry stone wall), are contained within the boundaries of this wall. Preliminary interpretation is of a stock holding area (previously Lake Condah Dry Stone Wall 1 X, H7221-0261).5. Dry stone wall running north east from circular dry stone enclosure approximately 50 metres south east of feature 1 (previously Lake Condah Dry Stone Wall 1 H, H7221-0248).6. Section of dry stone wall abutting the north end of circular dry stone wall enclosure near the Lake Track . The wall is orientated NW and runs parallel with the Lake Track for approximately 120 m. The north section of the wall disappears into dense scrub and was not located (previously Lake Condah Dry Stone Wall 1 F, H7221-0246).
Heritage Inventory Significance: Regional
Informants: DCNR/nRecorded by: A. Murphy & D. Rhodes Date Recorded: 23FEB1990 Heritage Inventory Site Features: 1. Dry stone wall building. Rectangular hut built from non-dressed rectangular basalt blocks. Four external dry stone walls constructed by laying two adjacent rows of stone, with rubble infill. The walls taper inwards and may have been packed with mud and mortar originally and have round corners. Approximately 6 x 3.5 metres, the door is in the narrow wall. Internal wall forms a recess next to the entrance, possibly for a fireplace. Indications of round, dome shaped chimney above a square recess. Probably without windows.3,4, 5 & 6. The stones are laid in two rows, with random coursing and tapering inwards. large - medium rubble infill with small rocks under the coping stones. The coping stones are square, block shaped. There is no cut stone.
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LAKE CONDAH - COMPLEX CVictorian Heritage Inventory
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LAKE CONDAH - COMPLEX D (MURPHY'S HUT)Victorian Heritage Inventory
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LAKE CONDAH - COMPLEX BVictorian Heritage Inventory
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