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NEW NUGGETTY GULLY ALLUVIAL GOLD WORKINGS
WERONA-YANDOIT ROAD FRANKLINFORD, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

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NEW NUGGETTY GULLY ALLUVIAL GOLD WORKINGS SOHE 2008
NEW NUGGETTY GULLY ALLUVIAL GOLD WORKINGS SOHE 2008
NEW NUGGETTY GULLY ALLUVIAL GOLD WORKINGS SOHE 2008
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Statement of Significance

The New Nuggetty Gully Alluvial Gold Workings is an excellent characteristic example of shallow mining for alluvial gold. The site has remnants of three different forms of mining - shaft sinkings, creek diversion and sluicing, and ground sluicing - associated with at least five house sites. The area was settled prior to mining by Swiss Italians and the house remains show distinctive architectural details pertaining to the Ticino region of Switzerland. The gully was opened in 1859 with gold seekers recovering some large nuggets. In 1860, the New Nuggetty Company constructed a creek diversion to work a large section of the gully. The water race was constructed during the mid 1865, and after about 1867, the gully was worked by fossickers.

The New Nuggetty Gully Alluvial Gold Workings is of historical, architectural, archaeological and scientific importance to the State of Victoria.

The New Nuggetty Gully Alluvial Gold Workings is historically and scientifically important as a particularly fine and essentially intact example of a site associated with the earliest forms of gold mining which, from 1851, played a pivotal role in the development of Victoria. New Nuggetty Gully is important because of the gold mining sequence documented by the surviving relics, and is also important for its low level of physical disturbance since the nineteenth century.

The New Nuggetty Gully Alluvial Gold Workings is historically and architecturally significant for its unusual remnant fabric of Swiss Italian houses in the form of large stone fireplaces of a type common in the Swiss cantonment of Ticino but rare in Victoria. These remnants are socially important for their continuing association with the Swiss Italian community in the Daylesford area.

The New Nuggetty Gully Alluvial Gold Workings is archaeologically important for its potential to yield artefacts which will be able to provide significant information about the cultural history of gold mining and the gold seekers themselves.

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    • Permit Exemptions

      NEW NUGGETTY GULLY ALLUVIAL GOLD WORKINGS - Permit Exemptions

      General Exemptions:

      General exemptions apply to all places and objects included in the Victorian Heritage Register (VHR). General exemptions have been designed to allow everyday activities, maintenance and changes to your property, which don’t harm its cultural heritage significance, to proceed without the need to obtain approvals under the Heritage Act 2017.

      Places of worship: In some circumstances, you can alter a place of worship to accommodate religious practices without a permit, but you must notify the Executive Director of Heritage Victoria before you start the works or activities at least 20 business days before the works or activities are to commence.

      Subdivision/consolidation: Permit exemptions exist for some subdivisions and consolidations. If the subdivision or consolidation is in accordance with a planning permit granted under Part 4 of the Planning and Environment Act 1987 and the application for the planning permit was referred to the Executive Director of Heritage Victoria as a determining referral authority, a permit is not required.

      Specific exemptions may also apply to your registered place or object. If applicable, these are listed below. Specific exemptions are tailored to the conservation and management needs of an individual registered place or object and set out works and activities that are exempt from the requirements of a permit. Specific exemptions prevail if they conflict with general exemptions.

      Find out more about heritage permit exemptions here.

      Specific Exemptions:

      EXEMPTIONS FROM PERMITS:

      No permits are required for the following classes of works:

      Grazing of cattle and sheep until the land is fenced off.
      Retaining access to the rest of the land, including use of the bridge and
      crossing the sluiced land to the south of the bridge crossing.
      Normal land care maintenance - weed, pest and soil erosion controls, and
      removal of fallen trees where necessary.

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