HISTORICAL ARTEFACT SCATTER AND QUARRIES

407 SEBASTOPOL ROAD KYNETON, MACEDON RANGES SHIRE

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    HISTORICAL ARTEFACT SCATTER AND QUARRIES - History

    Heritage Inventory History of Site: The area in which the site is located was originally part of the Carlsrushe pastoral lease, until the run was divided in 1839, at which time it became part of the St Agnes run. Parish plans show that this area was subdivided in 1855 and the block on which the site is located became allotment 262 in the Parish of Lauriston, Shire of Dalhousie. It was purchased by N.C. Wynne on 17/1/1855. The artefacts would date the site to the mid to late 1800s. Quarrying of bluestone took place in the area from the 1860s until the early part of this century. Stone was used locally and was distributed widely for public buildings in Melbourne, rural Victoria and interstate.

    Heritage Inventory Description

    HISTORICAL ARTEFACT SCATTER AND QUARRIES - Heritage Inventory Description

    Scatter of historical artefacts associated with disturbed ground adjacent to the Calder Highway, opposite the end of Donovan's Lane. Bottle fragments and ceramics estimated to date between 1850s and 1880s. Also four broken bricks and bluestone blocks including a large bluestone lintel or threshold stone (1.20m x 0.4m). A group of small basalt quarries are 100 metres to the north. (Uncertain if these are connected.) There are scattered artefacts near the quarries.

    Heritage Inventory Significance: Low archaeological and historical significance. There is little likelihood that in situ archaeological deposits remain intact.

    Recorded by: Vincent Clark. Date Recorded: September 1998

    Heritage Inventory Site Features: - fragments of glass and ceramic. - structural remains (brick and bluestone blocks.) - basalt quarries.
    
    

    Archeological Potential: Potential/Disturbed

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