JAMES PAGE'S GRAVE

WESTERN HIGHWAY NHILL, HINDMARSH SHIRE

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    JAMES PAGE'S GRAVE - History

    Heritage Inventory History of Site:
    Pastoral property, associations with the Aboriginal Cricket Team
    

    Interpretation of Site

    JAMES PAGE'S GRAVE - Interpretation of Site

    Heritage Inventory Interpretation: Possibly a graveyard for Mount Elgin Station

    Heritage Inventory Description

    JAMES PAGE'S GRAVE - Heritage Inventory Description

    Grave stone, horizontal, "James Page 1866" inscription/n

    Heritage Inventory Significance: Early settlement and mortuary practices

    Heritage Inventory Key Components: Grave stone, skeletal remains (assorted) Heritage Inventory Site Features: Area of potential burials - includes Aboriginal, pointed out by Janet Voight who remembers her father reburying eroded out skeletal remains. The area of potential around the gravestones formerly had wooden crosses, washed away in floods in the 1950's (pers. Com. Janet Voight).

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