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Documentation relating to Campbell's archaeological investigations in the South-East of South Australia:

    Typescriipt 'Mt Burr datings with results from samples. Reprint from The Australian Journal of Science July 1964 page 24 Headline "Radiocarbon dates of interest to Australian Archaeologists" by Norman Barnett Tindale (AA 338). Photocopies of photographs Plate 2 'Mt Burr rock shelter' and Plate 3 'Excavation in progress'. Plan 'Mt Burr rock shelter floor and excavation (Fig 1)'. 'Mt Burr rock shelter front section of excavation (Fig 2)'. 'Mt Burr rock shelter section (Fig 3)'. Typescript 'South east excavation December 1963 R Edwards, PS Hossfeld, TD Campbell'.Schematic 'Mt Burr digs 1-3. A3 sheet summarising Microliths at various levels.
  1. Letter Campbell to Miss Burton dated 18 September 63 covering 'Brief progress report on archaelogical projects in the South East of South Australia'. Australian Aboriginal people, rock shelter, implements, bones and jaw fragments, charcoal.
    Research notes Boonadik tribe, Duncan Stewart, Fison & Howitt, 1880; hunting, Lake George, Beachport, implements, flints, age and antiquity, customs and ceremonies, decline of population, employment, Mt Gambier.
    Pencil drawing drip line. Incline of slope, general floor plan, trenching, graph paper drawing of incline and floor plans.

  2. Tracing Bevilaqua Cliffs site and Lake Bonney, photograph of marked stones, 2 photographs of map of excavation site area from Guichen Bay to Lake Hawdon.

  3. Photolithograph map of Lake George county of Grey with excavation sites marked in pencil.

  4. Booklet with brown paper cover marked "Burr Shelter" containing: photograph of rock shelter site, 2 page typescript "Mt Burr Shelter" 3000 pieces scrap material, implements, scrapers, microiliths. Six page typescript report on the explorations, Australian Aboriginal people, charcoal dating 320 years BP, Mt Graham, Rodney Douglas James Weathersbee, dingo bones, Dr Paul Simon Hossfeld )1895 - 1967), Millicent, shell middens, Plebidonax, Bevilaqua Cliffs, Norman Barnett Tindale (AA 338), Cape Martin, Rivoli Bay.
    Colured graphs showing date of working, schedule of implements recovered, list of mammals noted, list of materials excavated.

CreatorProfessor Thomas Draper Campbell
ControlAA 52/4/7 A-E
Date Range1962  -  1962
FormatsGeneral Correspondence, Maps, Loose Photographic Prints, Notebooks
Series AA 52/04