INSCRIBING THE PLAINS CONSTRUCTED, CONCEPTUALISED AND SOCIALIZED LANDSCAPES OF THE HAY PLAIN, SOUTH EASTERN AUSTRALIA VOLUME 2 APPENDICES Sarah Martin B.Sc. Hons. UNE A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of the University of New England April 2006 Appendices Appendix 1 Colour Photos ? 1-18 Appendix 2 Witter Reduction Charts ? 19 Appendix 3 Examples of SEM Pictures and Notes from B.Gott ? 31 Appendix 4 Tables of Dates for Hearths and Mounds ? 35 Appendix 5.1 Ravensworth 3 Survey Data ? 39 Appendix 5.2 Ravensworth 3 Charcoal ID ? ? 43 Appendix 5.3 Ravensworth 3 Faunal Remains ? 46 Appendix 5.4 Ravensworth Stone Artefact Data ? ? 48 Appendix 5.5 Tchelery 1.1 Survey Data ? 76 Appendix 5.5 Tchelery Faunal Remains ? ? ? 82 Appendix 5.5 Tchelery Stone Artefact Raw Data ? ? ? 83 Appendix 5.6 Gundaline Artefact Data ? 90 Appendix 6 Table 6.1 Ravensworth 3 Sediment Particle Size Analysis, colour, pH ? 107 Appendix 6 Table 6.2 Ravensworth 3 Sediment Analysis Magnetic Susceptibility ? 109 Appendix 6 Table 6.3 Ravensworth 3 Heat Retainer Analysis ? 111 Appendix 6 Table 6.4 Ravensworth 3 Clay Ball Baking Experiment ? 113 Appendix 6 Table 6.5 Ravensworth 3 Magnetic Susceptibility by Particle Size Fraction ? 114 Appendix 6 Table 6.6 Ravensworth Gross Weights and Seive Weights ? 116 Appendix 7.1 Hay Plain Site DataBase (Grid Refs Removed) ? 118 Appendix 7.2 Hay Plain Site Survey Data ? ? 137 Appendix 7.3 Field Survey Forms ? 140 Appendix 8.1 Data for Mound Size and Shape ? 143 Appendix 8.2 Language Group Boundaries ? 151 Appendix 8.3 Landscape Stories... ? Photo 3 : Termite nest heat retainer hearth, Menindee, Darlin 1- River, heat retainer on slight pedestal Photo 1 : Stone Heat Retainer Hearth from the Broken Hill area, west of the Darling River, heart retainer just exposed, scale 20 cm in length • ? 811411111111 Photo 2 :The Pinnacles, Pine Creek 11, Broken Hill. Stone heat retainer hearths, partly in-situ 1 Photo 4 : Non-mounded ashy deposit, Darling River near Menindee, figure standing in the middle of deposit, small gully cuts through deposit Photo 5: Close up of non-mounded ashy deposit in photo 4, lumps of material are baked clay heat retainers, note ashy grey sediment 2 Photo 6 : Ravensworth 3 showing levee bank cutting through mound - person on left standing on bank & east half of mound, second person in levee cutting, with biggest half of mound to right. Mound is grey coloured, palaeosoil from below mound dug up by bulldozer is paler pink-orange Photo 7 : Ravensworth 3, figures standing on top of mound, car at base of mound (2 heaps of black material to left & right of figures are the result of bulldozer) Photo 8: Setting up the Ravensworth 3 Excavation. Steve Meredith & Badger Bates kneeling, Gubba Woods standing to left, Ian Woods to right, distant figures on edge of mound with green vegetation 3 Photo 9: Ravensworth 3 Excavation pit in centre of large mound (green vegetation), lake in distance filled with irrigation runoff. Photo 10 : Ravensworth 3 Excavation Spit 20, note leached top layers Photo 11: Ravensworth 3, pit infilled with ash and heat retainer 4 Photo 12: Ravensworth 3, uneven junction of mound and basement resulting from animal burrows Photo 13 : Ravensworth 3 wall sections, pink material is heat retainer scraped with trowel 5 Photo 14: Tchelery 1.1 mound with green vegetation in middle of picture, scale provided by person in orange top (arrow) on left and grader on right (grader parked on dry ground by station owner) Photo 15: Tchelery 1.1 mound, standing on top looking across Hay Plain Southwest Photo 16 : Tchelery 1.1 mound, standing on side of mound, figure on edge of mound, swamp behind 6 Photo 17 : Tchelery 1.1 mound, Terry Baulsch walking up the mound towards excavation Photo 18 : Tchelery 1.1 excavation, spit 10 Photos 19, 20 and 21 below, three hearth features. Photo 19 is a pit filled with ash and heat retainer. Photo 20 shows a baked clay hearth in section (arrow). Photo 21 shows a circular cluster of baked clay heat retainer in base of shallow pit 7 photo 21 8 Photo 22 Tchelery 1.1 junction of mound and basement, showing hard polished surface with shallow hearth pit (white arrow) and possible post holes (black arrows) Photo 23 as above, note large infilled pit in wall 9 Photo 24: Baked clay heat retainer hearth exposed after removal of topsoil, baked and charcoal stained pit on right side of photo, Gundaline, Hay Plain Southeast Photo 25 : Gundaline Heat retainer hearth shown above, prior to excavation 10 Photo 26: Ephemeral swamp at Gundaline, showing dominance of grasses with Acacia pendula on horizon Photo 27 : Standing on a mound looking towards second mound with figures, mounds are grey with green vegetation, and dry grass in between. Abercrombie Creek, near Tchelery. 11 Photo 28 : Close up of above mound, Ian Woods, Badger Bates and Mark Schneider looking for faunal remains. Chenopod bushes mark edge of mound. Photo 29 : People standing on the side of a large mound called "The Mount", the bare strip is the eroding edge of the mound, Hay Plain Southwest Photo 30 : Kerri East mound on left and centre, Judith Littleton on edge of mound, posts in fore round on erodin ed e of mound and coverin burials 12 Photo 33: Eroding edge of mound, baked clay heat retainer looks like 'gravel', Hay Plain SW • Photo 31 : Large mound on St pauls, Hay Plain Southwest, three figures on mound Photo 32: On top of mound looking down to deflated pavement at edge, Hay Plain SW 13 Photo 34 : Platform shaped mound on Murrumbidgee River, Lowbidgee, large trees growing on sides of mound, figure with staff in centre of mound Photo 35: Close up of above mound, Bilyara Bates holding staff Photos 36 : Smaller mound on Lowbidgee, edge near packbag, grey soil dug out by rabbits past bag 14 Photo 37 : Tala Lake Sample area, Steve Meredith on high lunette Photo 38 : Lunch break time on the Murrumbidgee River at Auley Station sample area 15 Photo 49 : Gubba Woods Fishing on Murrumbidgee River near Hay Photo 50 : Swamp on Hay Plain Northeast, Berangerine, with box trees, dead reeds and lignum. Area sampled and scarred trees recorded, no mounds. 16 51. Photos of stone artefacts at Waimea Downs, clockwise from left, grinding dish fragment, anvil with multiple pits, small hammerstone and bone point file stone (black & white scale in cm) 17 Photos 52 & 53 Typha rhizomes pushing up Photo 54 : Typha rhizome pulled out of mud 18