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BOWERS FARM

Location 440 HORSEHILL ROAD GRENVILLE, MOORABOOL SHIRE File Number FOL/15/7274 Level Heritage Inventory Site

[1/2] Bowers Farm October 2014 [2/2] Bowers Farm October 2014

Statement of Significance

Surface features, artefact scatters, visible ruins and earthworks suggest that Bowers Farm contains archaeological deposits of domestic and agricultural buildings, outbuildings and other structures, paths, roadways, field and property boundaries and plough marks. While the site is clearly ruinous lack of observable disturbance suggests that sub surface deposits have integrity. These deposits evidence the changing approaches to land management and agricultural practices during the latter half of the 19th Century and through the WWI. The farm is linked to the late 19th Century land acts and the effects of the Ballarat gold rush. As such archaeological deposits are provisionally assessed as being of significance to the understanding of the history of Victoria and the local region.