KIRKHAMS REEF MINE

MIDLAND HIGHWAY DRY DIGGINGS, HEPBURN SHIRE

All information on this page is maintained by Heritage Victoria. Click below for their website and contact details.

Victorian Heritage Inventory

Statement of Significance

• Additional Place Information

  • History

    KIRKHAMS REEF MINE - History

    Heritage Inventory History of Site: No historical information found

    Heritage Inventory Description

    KIRKHAMS REEF MINE - Heritage Inventory Description

    Mullock heap - Large mullock heap which is currently being quarried. The shaft has been filled.Battery (15 head of stamps) - To the south of the heap is an excavated platform containing two levels. The upper level (measuring 60ft x 15ft) has three sets of timber mortar blocks and 11/2 inch mounting bolts. The lower lever (60ft square) is covered by earth and low vegetation.Machinery foundations - Above the stamper foundations is another platform (50ft x 30ft) which has an arrangement of decaying bedlogs with 11/2 inch mounting bolts and a possible buried boiler setting.Shallow workings - Above the mullock heap is a line of shallow reef workings which have been bulldozed. The main feature is a faint whim platform and small dump.

    Heritage Inventory Significance: The site has:Scientific significance - range of features including battery and machinery sites Archaeological potentialSIGNIFICANCE RANKING: Regional

    Recorded by: David Bannear

    Heritage Inventory Site Features: Mullock heap - Battery site - Machinery foundations - Shallow workings No artefacts are visible

• Location map
• Explore related places
  • Show:
    -- select -- Nearby Places

  • HUNTS DAM AND RACE

    

    Victorian Heritage Inventory
  • KIRKHAMS REEF MINE

    

    Victorian Heritage Inventory
• Public contributions