colloquium presentation 2014
TRANSCRIPT
Victorian Archaeology Colloquium 2014
Sylvana Szydzik and Pamela Ricardi
Two Households, not alike in dignity,in fair Truganina, where we lay our scene…
HOUSE 1
Early Truganina Residents, 1905. Henry Eades is circled in the back row.
Benjamin Cropley
• Artefact assemblage reflects this timeframe and suggests a late 19th century working class family unit
• Constructed 1850‐60s, occupied until 1919
• Leased to H. Eades in 1880, then transferred in 1886
• Land purchased by B. & E. Cropley in first sales, 1858
• Kitchen
• Three living areas/ bedrooms, including one with fireplace
• External storage room
• External rendered storage tank/cistern
Kitchen fireplace
Render lined tank/cistern
and downpipe
HOUSE 1
Photos
Window glass, painted (windmill and circus pattern)
Saucer, Sprigged
Plate, Asiatic Pheasant
Teacup handle, unidentified purple transfer
Photos
Jewellery, pendants and a watch
Domino
Nursery Rhyme Childs cup
Holloway’s Ointment Lid
Photos
Case bottle
Ginger beer bottle
Rosella Sauce Bottle
Kaolin Tobacco Pipe Mouthpiece
R. Parker, Ironmonger , Moorabool Street, Geelong
Room 2, showing graffiti
Horse Bit
Oven Door – J. Cooper and Sons, Melbourne
HOUSE 2
• Pine View Farm held the first telephone exchange in the area
• Property remained in the family for three generations, until it was sold in 1969
• Harrison and his wife Elizabeth raised 12 children at Pine View
• Land purchased by George Harrison, between 1866 and 1868, who gave it the name Pine View Farm
Truganina State School, Class of 1915, May Harrison and George Harrison Jnr circled (third generation)
House 1: Beads
House 1: Buttons
House 2: Bead
House 2: Buttons
House 1: Porcelain doll leg and arm
House 1: Ceramic marbles, including two Benningtons in centre House 2: Ceramic marbles
House 2: Dolls tea cup and saucer
House 1: Tokens and Coins
House 2: Tobacco Pipes
House 2: Tokens and Coins
House 2: Gunflint
House 1 House 2
We would like to thank:
• HV Staff
• The clients;
• Wendy Alberto, Rick Bullers, Bradley Ward, Mollie Harbour, Terence MacManus, Dan Cummins and Oona Nicolson
• All of you for listening!
QUESTIONS?