End of Day Two – Jodie Mitchell, Director of Alpha Archeaology, looks to have been working hard
Finds from Day Two
View through the ViewBank House site, where once the View from the Bank was of bushland
Day 3. Students attend the dig site, and the outlook to suburban Melbourne
After demolition in 1912, the Homestead at ViewBank was forgotten, the only sign being the ring of introduced trees
Megan gives the day’s archaeologists a run-down on ViewBank history
On the right, the terrace; on the left, the steps leading to where the front door once stood
Hand-made bricks, and forgotten garden trees, Homestead at ViewBank
The Finds table
Embossed pottery
The trench begins to reveal what has been in the dark ground for a century and a half
AASV member Naomi uncovers a plate
Sieving the dirt
Jodie with a beautiful find, a soup tureen. Unless it’s a chamber pot.
Watts Cottage
Val and Begliot at Sorrento Museum
Inside Watts Cottage
At the Quarantine Station
Quarantine Station
Dormitory at Quarantine Station
Dormitory at Quarantine Station
Ocean views at the Quarantine Station
Dormitory at Quarantine Station
Quarantine Cooker
Disappearing gun mount
Under the fort
Ladder to lower tunnel
Storage area
preserved guns
Penny makes a call
Gun Emplacement. Jodie, Penny, Des, Alex, Lousie, Chris, Alan, Virginia
Gun canopy with formwork
Engineering room
Blocked up tunnel
Tunnel
Warning sign
At the heads
View from the engineering rooms
