Little Lon Archaeological Investigations

Part of: La Trobe University

Site Name Keywords
Casselden Place (Melbourne) • Little Lonsdale (Melbourne, Victoria)

Site Type Keywords
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic • Domestic Structures • House • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Agricultural or Herding • Terrace • Urban

Other Keywords
Slum

Culture Keywords
Historical Archaeology (incl. Industrial Archaeology) (FOR 210108)

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation

Material Types
Ceramic • Glass • Building Materials • Metal • miscellaneous • Organic • Other

Geographic Keywords
Melbourne • Commonwealth of Australia (Country) • Australia (Continent) • Victoria (State / Territory) • Little Lon Precinct

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  • Casselden Place Archaeological Excavations
    PROJECT Uploaded by: Penny Crook

    The Casselden Place Archaeological Excavations (50 Lonsdale Street) were conduced in two stages in May-July and November-December 2002 by Godden Mackay Logan, Austral Archaeology and the Archaeology Program at La Trobe University. The site is located in the eastern end of Melbourne CBD in the infamous 'Little Lon' precinct—an area that acquired a reputation in the 19th and early-20th centuries for squalor and vice. The site revealed evidence of Melbourne's earliest phases of settlement and...

  • Casselden Place Archaeological Excavations - Research Archive Report (2004)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Godden Mackay Logan. Austral Archaeology. La Trobe University.

    Four volume report providing a comprehensive record of the archaeological excavation including trench reports, artefact reports, appendices.

  • Casselden Place Artefact catalogue (2004)
    DATASET La Trobe University. Godden Mackay Logan. Austral Archaeology.

    Artefact catalogue produced following the Casselden Place excavation.

  • Casselden Place Images (2004)
    IMAGE Rudy Frank. La Trobe University. Ming Wei.

    Selection of photographs from the Casselden Place assemblage. A total of 2,500 images were taken.

  • Commonwealth Block dataset (2012)
    DATASET Citation Only La Trobe University. Godden Mackay Logan. Sarah Hayes.

    Suite of datasets arising from the Commonwealth Block project.

  • Little Lon excavations
    PROJECT Justin McCarthy.

    Excavations undertaken over a five month period in 1987-1988 on the Commonwealth Block, formerly the inner-city working-class district of Little Lon in Melbourne’s CBD. The excavation revealed building foundations, hearths, cellars, cesspits and laneways. Due to multiple phases of occupation and concurrent demolition across the site was highly disturbed, but rich deposits were recovered from 14 cesspits and 11 rubbish dumps. At that time, the excavation at ‘Little Lon’ was the largest urban...