DEEP CREEK MINING VILLAGE
OFF EASTERN HILL ROAD BLAMPIED, HEPBURN SHIRE
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DEEP CREEK MINING VILLAGE - History
Heritage Inventory History of Site: Deep Creek and its immediate vicinity experienced shallow alluvial mining, deep lead mining (mainly tunnelling under the basalt escarpment), and also quartz mining. Alluvial mining along the creek was being carried from the mid 1850s. The Deep Creek also supplied water for two races. Both were constructed in 1865 and went to Yandoit. The main period for sluicing in the Daylesford district was late 1850s to 1880s.Heritage Inventory Description
DEEP CREEK MINING VILLAGE - Heritage Inventory Description
Hut sites - Remains of at least seven hut sites (mainly marked by collapsed stone fireplaces and hut outlines). One of the stone fireplaces has been converted into a small galvanised tin hut. Sluice - One the west side of the creek , near where the water course cuts through a saddle, are the stone footings for a sluice, 20ft x 6ft. The sluice is obscured by thick blackberries.
Heritage Inventory Significance: The site has:Scientific significance - concentration of hut sites; and possible foundations of a sluiceArchaeological potentialSIGNIFICANCE RANKING: Regional
Recorded by: David Bannear
Heritage Inventory Site Features: Hut sitesSluice footings
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DEEP CREEK MINING VILLAGEVictorian Heritage Inventory
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