CHAPEL HILL TERRACED RUIN SITE

This site is approximately 5m south of the Castlemaine Diggings National Park. The site comprises a two roomed stone ruin and large terrace on Allotment 25 and 26 of Section 12 Murdering Flat/ Chapel Hill. Murdering Flat is directly on Fryers Creek and was first rushed in 1854. It was not a rich gold field but was a key point between Fryers Town and Campbells Creek and Castlemaine townships. The land was first survey in 1860 and likely sold during this period.  In 1860, Murdering flat was inundated with sludge that covered the roadway from Church Hill to Fryers Town. By 1923 the site is likely to have been amalgamated into farmland.  

The site is of local historical and archaeological significance. 

The site is of local historical significance as store that operated on Murdering Flat throughout the 19th century. The site shows the development and settlement patterns within the Mount Alexander gold field. The site has the potential to contain early nineteenth century features, and artefacts relating to the nineteenth century township of Chaple Hill and Fryerstown.