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Twilight Talks 2024, Season 4 | Uncovering the Past: The archaeology of a Goldrush city – identifying, protecting and managing Ballarat’s buried relics and ruins.

Bar open at 5pm
$8 – $12
Humffray Room
The archaeology of a Goldrush city - identifying, protecting and managing Ballarat’s buried relics and ruins.
Speaker: Jeremy Smith.
Heritage Victoria recently received funding from the Heritage Council Victoria to prepare an Archaeology Management Plan for parts of the City of Ballarat.
The plan has reviewed historical records and utilised innovative new mapping technologies to identify places where historical archaeological sites are likely to survive beneath the modern city.
This talk will present the results of the study and explain why Ballarat’s 19th century archaeology is likely to survive in remarkable condition beneath parts of the modern city.

Jeremy Smith is Heritage Victoria’s Principal Archaeologist, and is an Honorary Research Fellow in Classics & Archaeology at the University of Melbourne.
He has written a number of publications about Victoria’s urban archaeology and was a key contributor to the award-winning book Ned Kelly Under the Microscope. (CSIRO Publishing, 2014).

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Tickets $8 BMI members & $12 general admittance | Season Pass is also available.

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