Fiddlers Green Alluvial Workings

Rifle Range Road EAGLEHAWK NORTH, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

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Fiddlers Green Alluvial Workings

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  • FIDDLERS GREEN ALLUVIAL WORKINGS - Victorian Heritage Inventory
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  • Physical Description 1

    Fiddlers Green Alluvial Workings - Physical Description 1

    At the junction of two branches of Fiddlers Green Gully there is an earthen dam with some dry stone walling on the downstream face. At the northern end there are some mounds of puddling wash, but no outline of any puddling machine could be found. Towards the southern end, however, there is a very weathered outline of a puddling machine. It is just possible to distinguish the inner mound. Four medium sized trees grow on this site. Further downstream, on the eastern edge of Rifle Range Road, there is a large earthen dam, partially filled with water. Below this the main gully deepens and there is evidence of shallow alluvial working along the northern edge which intensifies towards the point where the gully tumbles down into Deadman's Gully, the upper floor of which appears to have been hydraulically sluiced

    Physical Description 2

    Fiddlers Green Alluvial Workings - Physical Description 2

    The site is generally defined by the three main branches of Fiddlers Gully for a distance of 300 metres east of Rifle Range Road, by the westward extension of the main gully to its junction with Deadmans Gully and the southern end of that gully for a distance of 250 metres north of the junction between Fiddlers and Deadmans gullies, and extends for a distance of 75 metres on each side of the main lines of each of these gullies.

    Physical Description 3

    Fiddlers Green Alluvial Workings - Physical Description 3

    There appears to have been some form of mining activity in the area from 1852 until at least 1888.

    Deadman's Gully to the west and for some distance downstream from its junction with Fiddler's Green/Gully has been extensively sluiced. Although sluicing began on Bendigo in 1874, when a secure supply of water became available from the Coliban system, it is quite unlikely that such operations began in this area before the construction of the Eaglehawk syphon and Blue Jacket Reservoir in 1885/1886. As there is little re-growth over the sluiced area, however, it seems more likely that the sluicing was undertaken in the period 1931-1936, when there were over a thousand alluvial miners reported to be at work in the Bendigo district, and there were reports of fossickers in the area.

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Greater Bendigo - Marong Heritage Study 1999

    Author: Andrew Ward and Associates
    Year: 1999
    Grading: Local

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