A tailored cultural heritage management strategy for the Gold Coast Light Rail Stage 2 Project
Category: Cultural Heritage
Cultural Heritage finds on the Gold Coast Light Rail Stage 2 Project
Field surveys confirm areas of high Aboriginal cultural heritage sensitivity.
Significant Rock Shelter Complex found at Yarrabilba
This Rock Shelter Complex is an extremely rare find regionally and holds high scientific, cultural and aesthetic value for the Gold Coast Traditional Owner community.
Boat ramp upgrade project uncovers Aboriginal cultural heritage
Surface artefacts and a significant shell midden site identified as part of Gold Coast City Council’s boat ramp upgrade project.
Knapping (stone work) site identified near Logan Village
Aboriginal cultural material recovered from the site suggests the area was once a knapping (stone working) site by our ancestors.
Ormeau Quarry reveals history from 1670
Ormeau Quarry Expansion, Boral Resources Qld The Ormeau Quarry expansion project required a survey which was in November 2013. Test pits and shovel probes found 115 stone artefacts including a charcoal sample located at the same depth as the stone artefacts. Radiocarbon dating of the charcoal sample gave a date for site occupation of approximately…
Our heritage on display at Gold Coast Aquatic Centre
The Gold Coast Aquatic Centre at Southport has been redeveloped as a world class swimming and diving competition facility for the 2018 Commonwealth Games. In May 2013, Jabree conducted a cultural heritage survey of the redevelopment site which involved 13 test pits and the use of a hand auger to drill into the subsurface layer and identify the…
Stone artefacts found, Mount Tamborine
In May 2012 fieldwork was undertaken at the Tamborine Village Roundabout which is approximately 2.5km southwest of the bora ground at Waldron Road, Tamborine. While much of the site had been disturbed by road works, 11 stone artefacts were found including silcrete flakes and cores. In one pit a charcoal sample was found at the…
Rare knapping, camping and ceremonial sites identified, Stockland Coomera
Between 2004 and 2005, Jabree provided a staged cultural heritage assessment of the Stockland project area in Coomera, which identified 20 significant sites that uncovered a total of 503 stone artefacts, 3 species of shell, charcoal, small animal bones and ochre. One site was assessed as a knapping site (stone tools were created at this location), containing some…
