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PICNIC POINT JETTY DEPOSIT AND ENVIRONS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

Other Name

Pic-Nic Point Jetty, Picnic Point Jetty, Sandringham Jetty, Hampton Pier

Location

36 JETTY ROAD HAMPTON, BAYSIDE CITY

Level

Heritage Inventory Site

Statement of Significance

What is significant?

The site has the potential to reveal information regarding the original construction of the pier and repairs due to storm damage in the 1890s and 1930s and contain archaeological deposits, artefacts and features relating to its recreational and commercial use and the use of the site as a naval parading and military training area.

How is it significant?

The site is of local historical and archaeological significance.

Why is it significant?

The Hampton pier has the potential to provide information about the original nineteenth-century pier construction and forms. The pier has potential to yield artefacts associated with its recreational and commercial use, and may contain artefacts, deposits and features associated with the pier use as a naval parade area and military training area in the late nineteenth century.

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