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Roonka Excavations, General Flat Survey and Surface Finds in the vicinity of Trench A.

Archive Collections / Graeme Lloyd Pretty / Series AA 255/16 / Roonka Excavations, General Flat Survey and Surface Finds in the vicinity of Trench A.

Four notebooks relating to the work done and samples collected - notebooks titled "General Flat Survey".

  1. Roonka Excavations General Flat Survey (front of notebook), Finds.
    Roonka Excavations Vicinity of Trench A (back of notebook),     Surface Finds.
    . Front of notebook: Near the front of the notebook is a key to the various "Find" symbols used. Eg. "O" = oven, "SK" = human skeleton, "ASK" = animal skeleton etc. - 11 categories altogether.
    The finds are listed by an identifying symbol plus number and a description.
    Finds dated 12/5/1973 are on the first 15 pages.
    Finds dated 23/6/1973 are on the next 11 pages. These start from "1" again and some (aboriginal, shell midden and oven finds) have been renumbered in pencil so that the sequence started for these in the first 15 pages is continued.
    There is 1 Find dated 13/7/1974 and one dated July 1984.
    After this is a list of Finds classed as "Aboriginal Finds", numbered 1 - 54.
    The Finds numbered 1 - 51 have been extracted from the Finds listed on the first 26 pages of this notebook and reflect the renumbering where applicable.
    The Finds numbered 52 - 54 are dated 28/1/1987.
    . Back of notebook: This is a list of "unprovenanced surface finds" from Roonka Flat in the vicinity of Trench A. Most are undated but the earliest dated Find was collected on 4/12/1962. The latest date in this list is 21/1/1974.
    The Finds are numbered 1 - 228.
    This list has been compiled as a summary from various sources and notebooks.

  2. Roonka Excavations General Flat Survey, Carbon Samples.
    No entries.

  3. Roonka Excavations General Flat Survey, Soil Samples.
    No entries.

  4. Roonka Excavations General Flat Survey, General Debris.
    No entries.

Creator: Graeme Lloyd Pretty
Control: AA 255/16/3/1-4
Date Range:  04 December, 1962  -  28 January, 1987
Quantity:    4  
Formats: Notebooks
Series:  AA 255/16
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