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Fiddlers Green Alluvial Workings

Location Rifle Range Road EAGLEHAWK NORTH, GREATER BENDIGO CITY Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/1] Fiddlers Green Alluvial

Statement of Significance

The site contains two dams, at least one of which is known to have first been built by 1879, a puddling machine likely to be a rare and relatively intact nineteenth century puddling machine (criterion B and criterion D), traces of shallow alluvial workings and some evidence of hydraulic sluicing; many of the features of early alluvial mining (criterion D).