Pig Oven, Palmer Goldfields

Pig Oven, Palmer Goldfields

Image Courtesy of: Gordon Grimwade

COMBER, J. 1992 Palmer goldfield heritage sites study (stage 2), unpublished report to the Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage.

GRIMWADE, G. 1990 Palmer goldfield heritage sites study (stage 1), unpublished report to the Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage.

GRIMWADE, G. 1993 EIS Cultural resources Palmer Goldfield (R16) ML 40050 & Access Road & update on adjacent sites in ML 3054, unpublished report for Jabarol Pty Ltd, Holloways Beach.

GRIMWADE, G. 2003 'Gold, gardens, temples and feasts: Croydon's Chinese Temple', Australasian Historical Archaeology 21: 50-57.

Cited in Gordon Grimwade, Crispy roast pork: using Chinese Australasian pig ovens, Australasian Historical Archaeology , 2008, Vol. 26 (2008), pp. 21-28.

Possible Palmer River Pig Ovens

Byerstown

Lone Start Creek

Maytown

One Mile Creek

Butcher's Creek

North Palmer

German Bar

Cradle Creek

Jessop Creek

Revoler Point

Granite Creek

Listed in Peter Bell, “Chinese ovens on mining settlement sites in Australia”, in Macgregor, P., Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific, Melbourne, Museum of Chinese Australian History, 1995, pp.213-229.