Treasure
Burning Tower, Weldborough
Date Published
: Burning Tower
: burning towers, Mining (Tin)
: Northeast Tasmania
: Weldborough
: 1880 to 1930
: burning towers, Mining (Tin)
: Northeast Tasmania
: Weldborough
: 1880 to 1930
Weldborough is a former tin mining village with Chinese burials and burning tower for funeral practices.
Weldborough burning tower
Image Courtesy of: CAHS
Many Chinese people lived in North-East Tasmania mining for tin in villages such as Weldborough. As in other locations in Australia a burning tower was erected to facilitate such funerary practices as the burning of paper offerings.
Weldborough burning tower and memorial
Image Courtesy of: CAHS
