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?