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In 1996 archaeologists from Heritage Victoria unearthed the foundations of a forgotten colonial homestead at Heidelberg in Melbourne's eastern suburbs. Located at the junction of the Yarra and Plenty Rivers, Viewbank homestead offers up traces of a short-lived empire from the mid nineteenth century. Relics of pastoral grandeur evoke stories of a place abandoned and long forgotten.
Every day we live and work in amongst Melbourne's history. We are surrounded by the bricks and mortar of our past, but how often do you stop to think about the fact that you are also walking over it?
A 200 metre stretch of late 19th century cable tram infrastructure was unearthed along Abbotsford Street, North Melbourne
Heritage Victoria has created a plan of the Central Business District that identifies all sites that have the potential to contain archaeological remains. Click on the image to read more and view the archaeological plan.
In April 29-30 2009, we conducted an educational dig at a former 19th-century rubbish tip in Warrnambool.
This exercise gave more than 150 primary school students from Warrnambool West Primary and Port Fairy Consolidated the chance to ‘be an archaeologist for a day’.