Little Lon Archaeological Investigations
Part of: La Trobe University
Site Name Keywords
Casselden Place (Melbourne)
Site Type Keywords
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex •
Domestic Structures •
House •
Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features •
Agricultural or Herding •
Terrace •
Domestic •
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
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...
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Little Lon excavations
PROJECT
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...