Treasure
Pig Oven, Mookerawa
Date Published
: Pig Oven (condition unknown)
: Pig Ovens
: Central West (NSW)
: Mookerawa
: 1984
: Pig Ovens
: Central West (NSW)
: Mookerawa
: 1984
Pig Oven identified by Ian Jack at Mookerawa 1984.
Image Courtesy of: Juanita Kwok and Ian Jack
The other oven Jack identified was at Mookerawa, near Stuart Town, where in 1984, he photographed what he believed to have been a Chinese habitation site. He photographed features of the site: a chock and log pen, possibly for pigs, a re-built hut, allegedly constructed by a Chinese miner, a loading ramp and an oven. Although Jack speculated that the oven may have been for ore-roasting, the oven in the photographs resembles a pig oven.
Juanita Kwok, A reassessment of Chinese pig ovens in Australia, Journal of Australasian Mining History, Vol. 21, October 2023, p.102.
Pig Oven identified by Ian Jack at Mookerawa 1984.
Image Courtesy of: Juanita Kwok and Ian Jack
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