Pig Oven, Tingha

In fieldwork for her Honours thesis on the archaeology of Chinese suburban settlement in the north west New South Wales tin mining towns of Tingha and Emmaville, Rebecca Lin Yit found large earthen mounds with convex tops within 20 metres of both the temple site on Howell Road at Tingha and the temple site at Joss House Rd at Emmaville. Based on Lindsay Smith’s research, she concluded that they were the destroyed remains of communal ovens.

Rebecca Lin Yit, ‘The Archaeology of Chinese Suburban Settlement’, Hons thesis, Australian National University, 2005, p. 120, In Juanita Kwok, A reassessment of Chinese pig ovens in Australia, Journal of Australasian Mining History, Vol. 21, October 2023, p.103.