Woolscour (Site Type Keyword)
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Australian Journal of Historical Archaeology Volume 02
The Excavation of the Mount Wood Woolscour, Tibooburra, New South Wales (1984)
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Archive of papers from Volume 2 of the Australian Journal of Historical Archaeology, published by the Australian Society for Historical Society (ASHA) in 1984.
The Excavation of the Mount Wood Woolscour, Tibooburra, New South Wales (1984)
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In this paper the author, who is Historian in the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, reconstructs the little-known process of station-based woolscouring from documentary and archaeological evidence. It is argued that the relatively Late survival of this form of scouring In western New South Wales resulted primarily from severely limited transport facilities. The considerable variation in scour design, evident in the literature and at Mount Wood, as attributed to individual...