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HAUNTED GULLY DIGGINGS, UPPER BEACONSFIELD

Location

HAUNTED GULLY ROAD BEACONSFIELD UPPER, CARDINIA SHIRE

Level

Heritage Inventory Site

Statement of Significance

Haunted Gully Diggings has archaeological potential to provide evidence relating to the alluvial gold mining works and associated activities. The integrity of some of the shafts has been compromised through wombat burrowing. The site retains evidence of gold ming operations and habitation within a narrow creek gully.

This area is locally significant as a small sample of alluvial mining activity in the Beaconsfield area, and is a visible indicator of the intense human activity required for this type of mining. The evidence found helps to complete the story of alluvial mining within the locality. The site is of local social significance. Oral records remain from a later mining foray which is associated with the 1890s depression period when mining became a major source of work for large numbers of unemployed in the area.

Group

Mining and Mineral Processing

Category

Alluvial Workings