20111129 · English: Mount William Aboriginal stone axe quarry Victorian, australia. showing waste stone and blanks in primary reduction area.
view moreThe Mount William stone axe quarry is an Aboriginal archaeological site in Central Victoria, Australia.It is located 9 km northeast of Lancefield, off Powells Track, 10 km north of Romsey and 78 km from Melbourne.Known as Wil-im-ee Moor-ring, meaning 'axe place' in the Woiwurrung language, the greenstone quarry was an important source of raw material for …
view moreAboriginal ground-edge axes are stone chopping tools with cutting edges that were formed by grinding. Find out how to spot and protect them. ... Many axes come from a large greenstone quarry at Mount William, near Lancefield. Axes from this quarry have been found up to 800 kilometres from Mount William, but not in the eastern half of Victoria.
view moreThe Mount William Stone-Axe Quarry is the largest and best-known indigenous quarry in Victoria spread over 50 acres. Known as Wil-im-ee Moor-ring, meaning “axe place” in Woi-wurrung, the greenstone quarry was an important source of raw material for manufacturing greenstone axes, which were traded over a wide area of south-east Australia ...
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view more2017922 · The relative value of stone from the Mount William quarry appears to have been extremely high among Aboriginal people of south-east Australia. Studies of the distribution of axes by Isabel McBryde (1978) suggest that they were traded north into New South Wales and west into South Australia, up to 600 kilometres from the quarry.
view moreMount William Stone Hatchet Quarry; edit. Language Label Description Also known as; English: Mount William stone axe quarry. indigenous national heritage site in Lancefield VIC. Mount William Stone Hatchet Quarry; Statements. instance of. indigenous cultural heritage site. 1 reference. publication date. 7 June 2017.
view moreMount William Greenstone Axe Quarry located in suburb of Goldie, near the town of Lancefield in Central Victoria. It is approximately 60km north of Melbourne. The area of the quarry site is on a ridgeline located on the northern end of the Mount William Range. The site of the Mt William stone Hatcher quarry in size of around 18 hectares and is ...
view moreEs gibt keine schriftlichen Niederlegungen der Aborigines über den Mount William Stone Hatchet Quarry, obwohl Führer des Stammes, sogenannte Ngurungaeta, darüber berichteten. In den Jahren 1882 und 1884 erläuterte der Wurundjeri -Ngurunaeta William Barak dem Hobby- Anthropologen William Howitt die Bedeutung der Steinbrüche …
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