Transcript The Valley” Fenced, forgotten and forlorn

“The Ruins of History”
How to preserve our sites or our
memories
Helen Cooke
Canberra Archaeological Society Inc
12 Mile Homestead site in the
Molonglo Valley
North Weston
12 Mile Site - towards North
Now called Misery Hill !
Defence HQ/RSPCA
Ceramic shards
Iron Wedge - Log Splitter & pottery piece
The Future
The Site on the edge
of future development
Crinigan’s Stone hut ruin before
conservation March 1991
CAS and family excavation 1992 1994
Louis and the bobcat
Treasures from Crinigan’s Hut
Glass from 12
Mile