Pig Oven, Nerrigundah

Pig Oven, Nerrigundah

Image Courtesy of: CAHS

"During the performance, a number of [Chinese people] assembled round a kind of oven built of stones and clay, somewhat resembling the shape of an ant-bed. After removing the top of the improvised oven, a pig was hauled out, baked whole."

The Cobargo Chronicle, 16 June 1899, p.2.

"Local washed river stones, and ant bed clay to bake hard. Hollow opening in top through to base. Small opening at base of front wall."

State Heritage Inventory, Chinese Oven - River Road Nerrigundah.

Pig Oven, Nerrigundah

Image Courtesy of: Cahs