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DEADMANS HILL SLUICE PIT

Location

WEST OF POVEY TRACK, DEADMANS HILL, WOMBAT STATE FOREST

Level

Heritage Inventory Site

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
Intact sluice hole/pit with tailraces
How is it significant?
Significance comes from its intactness, integrity and condition.
Why is it significant?
Historic remains associated with the Victorian gold rushes and the technology/heritage of mid to late 19th-century ground sluicing.

Group

Mining and Mineral Processing

Category

Sluicing Hole/Area