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    THE ROYAL HALL
    HILL END

    ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION



    CULTURAL[...]
    THE ROYAL HALL
    HILL END

    ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION

    CULTURAL RE[...]
    Archaeological investigation: Royal Hall Hill End 2009



    This report presents the evidence recove[...]rtaken at the Royal Hall located at Beyers Avenue Hill End. The investigation was carried
    out as part[...]
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End 2009

    is possible that the stone used in t[...]
    Archaeological investigation Royal Hall Hill End 2009

    2.1

    PROJECT INITIATION

    The programme of a[...]works required for portions of the Royal Hall at Hill End. The
    works were required for the storeroom and st[...]a place of high archaeological sensitivity in the Hill End
    Archaeological Zoning Plan. it is within the Core[...]gnificance of this site. It is a component of the Hill End
    Historic Site, an item on the State Heritage Regi[...]nsulting (2005); Conserve ion M n m nt T R / Hall Hill End

    3 Andrew Long (2002); Hill End Historic Site Archaeological Landscape Man[...]
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End 2009

    THE STUDY AREA



    The Royal Hall is locate[...]ortions 120 and 174. Section 10 of the
    Village of Hill End, Parish of Tambaroora‘ County of Wellington. Th[...]g room entered from Beyers Avenue. At the eastern end is a
    raised stage. The building has a sepa[...]
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End 2009

    2.3

    CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE

    Hill End as an historic site has national significance. Th[...]. It is an important component of the village of Hill End.

    . It has a high level of integrity.

    . It has l[...]igh.

    Generally the archaeological assemblages of Hill End have been assessed to be of national

    significanc[...]nificance within the towns.

    gAndrew Long (2002); Hill End Historic Site Archaeological Landscag Mana[...]
    Archaeological investigation Royal Hall Hill End 2009

    REMEDIATION WORKS



    Generally, the[...]
    Archaeological Investigation Royal Hall Hill End 2009

    EXCAVATION PERMIT



    Archaeological[...]
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End 2009

    THE POTENTIAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESOURCE



    A[...]g. An archaeological management
    plan prepared for Hill End in 2002 identified the cottage as a site of archa[...]ervention.

    ° Andrew Long and Associates (2002), HillHill Eng

    CRM for NPWS Page 13
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End 2009

    THE WORK

    2.8.1

    The Storeroom

    The[...]
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End 2009

    3.1

    CONTEXT WITHIN THE TOWN

    Although the[...]3—1822
    there is no evidence to suggest that the Hill End district came under European influence until
    the[...]his period are' known to have been established at Hill End.

    Alluvial gold was first discovered near Tambaroora in 1851. Gold was then found in Hill End
    Creek in 1852 and by 1853 most readily accessible[...]began in the mid-1850s on elevated land near Bald Hill.

    An unplanned town grew up around the diggings. A formal street plan was laid in 1859. The
    place was named Hill End in 1867.

    Reef mining reached a peak around 1872 matched by the expansion of the township. By the
    end of the 18705 mining activity had dwindled althoug[...]d into the
    early years of the twentieth century.

    Hill End continued to decline during the War Years and Dep[...]ommunity
    development to the majority of places in Hill End.

    CRM for NPWS Page ‘16
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End 2009

    3.2

    ON THE FRINGE OF THE TOWN

    The researc[...]nged to the earliest period of mining activity at
    Hill End associated with the exploitation of Hawkins Hill in the 1860s The alternative to this
    association[...]I\l\\'\AI\



    lie-LI.



    Plan of the village of Hill End in 1559; the red sleriust to the north of the las[...]gement Plan. Volume 2
    9 Design for the Village of Hill End 1859: SRO A0 Map 3134

    l” Plan of the Village of Hill End 1871 SRO A0 Map 3135

    CRM for NPWS Page 17
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End 2009



    3.3

    HENRY DWYER

    By 1872 the town surve[...]hree brothers from Cornwall who came as miners to Hill End. Phillip is said to have built a
    house and other[...]r mine, which
    had commenced operations on Hawkins Hill in 1866. It made him a wealthy man, By 1872 he
    obtained formal title to the land at the northern end of Tambaroora Street He was certainly in
    possessi[...]ric Martin and Associates (1999): The RQKEI Hotel Hill End Conservation Plan; 09
    ’2 Hill End Reports of Inspections of Licenced Premise[...]
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End 2009



    3.4

    THE ROYAL HOTEL

    The Royal Hall was[...]e Royal Hotel. A block
    was chosen at the southern end of Tambaroora Street, Possibly because of insuffi[...]Eric Martin and Associates (1999); me Royal Hotel Hill Em: Qwervarion Plan; 740



    CRM for NPWS Page 19
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End 2009

    Another panoramic view of a similar period[...]d
    several smaller out-buildings.





    Detail of Hill and panorama between 1872 and 1875
    Source ML: Hom[...]18705 business began to dry up for the hotels in Hill End. This was due to a
    decline in population r[...]
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End 2009

    garage behind the hall") and two kit[...]
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End 2009

    3.5

    THE ROYAL HALL

    It is claimed that the[...]sed the Royal Hotel) was a prominent
    Mason at the end of the nineteenth century. It has been speculated[...]ral painting produced by the artists that came to Hill End
    from the 19505. It is still used for community pu[...]Eyre quoted in lbid: 17
    2‘ H. Hodge (1997); The Hill End Story Book 3

    CRM for NPWS Page 22
    Archaeological investigation. Royal Hall Hill End 2009



    4.1

    THE BUILDING

    The Royal Hall has th[...]ing running east-west with a stage
    at the eastern end, It has an entry from Beyers Avenue.

    0 Be[...]
    Archaeotogical Investigation: Royal Halt Hit! End 2009





    View was! showing the skit/ion[...]
    Archaeological Investigation. Royal Hall Hill End 2009

    THE STORE

    The store is located in t[...]
    Archaeological investigation Royal Hall Hill End 2009



    THE SKILLION

    The walls of the skillion[...]und.

    The eastern wall has a door at the northern end that leads outside to the yard and a windo[...]
    Archaeological Investigation. Royal Hall Hill End 2009



    [004-008], resting on the surface[...]
    Archaeological Investigation Royal Han Hill End 2009






    Dust and w: W Ms ammulate[...]
    Archaeological investigation: Royal Hall Hill End 2009



    m

    BEFORE THE SKILLION

    There was[...]
    Archaeological investigation: Royal Hall Hill End 2009



    extent of the clay floor approxi[...]
    Archaeological lnvestigalion: Royal Hall Hlll End





    2009

    Above, View east of the sonda[...]
    2009

    Archaeological Investigatxon: Royal Hall Hill End





    View south attire mp Iffirefl cl[...]
    [...]rchaeological Investigation
    Royal Hall Stateroom

    Hill End 2009
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hilt End 2009



    4.3

    THE STAGE

    The stage is at the eastern end of the hall and is part of the original co[...]
    Archaeological investigation: Royal Hail Hill End 2009

    4.3.1
    BEFORE THE STAGE

    The pit under the s[...]gular dump of clay that is
    covered at the western end by a many large pieces of stone. it has no[...]
    Archaeological Investigation Roya! Halt Hill End 2009



    View at the Wham watt showing the bdek t[...]d is the large raised cla y mound at the southern end of the excavation.

    CRM for prs Page 37
    2009

    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End



    View west of the large clay raised deposit of clay with large pieces of stone laid over the western end.



    View to the south-eastern comer of th[...]
    Archaeological Investigation. Royal Han Hill End 2009





    View infer them-eastern gamers[...]
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hail Hill End 2009





    View west of the channel or li[...]
    [...]eological Investigation
    Royal Hall Stage Area

    Hm End 2009
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End 2009

    INTERPRETATION

    The remnant clay flo[...]
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End 2009

    would have been removed (if it still[...]
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End 2009

    RESPONSE TO THE RESEARCH DESIGN

    The permit[...]the one of the
    primary research questions of the Hill End Archaeological Plan being knowledge of the[...]
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End 2009

    Christo Aitken & Associates (2007)

    Robin A[...]epairs
    Review of Environmental Factors Royal Hall Hill End

    A Watching Brief at the Royal Hotel Hill End
    National Parks and Wildlife Service

    Conservation Management Strategy The Royal Hall
    Hill End

    The Hill End Story Book 3; Memories and Vignettes
    Hill End Publications. Toorak.

    Hill End Historic Site Archaeological
    Landscape Management[...]1-2
    NPWS Cultural Heritage Division

    Royal Hotel Hill End NSW Conservation Plan
    NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service

    Hill End Historic Landscapes and Gardens Study
    National Pa[...]nventory Form: Royal Hall

    Plan of the Village of Hill End 1871
    SRO AO Map 3135

    Plan of the Village of Hill End 1859
    SRO A0 Map 3134

    Plan of the Village of Hill End 1872
    SRO A0 Map 3136

    Hill End Panorama c.1871
    ML Home and Away Image 39173

    Hill End Panorama c.1872—1875
    ML Home and Away Im[...]
    PHOTO INDEX

    SITE: Royal Hall, Hill End
    Date: 2008 - 2009

    General Description: Ro[...]
    PHOTO INDEX

    SITE: Royal Hall, Hill End
    Date: 2008 — 2009

    General Descriptioano[...]
    Hill End
    Date: 2008 — 2009

    General Description:Royal Ha[...]st comer SE
    0038 Floor deposit, piers on northern end of room E
    0106 Stone joist piers across ce[...]
    [...]LIAwAGF‘JFhr



    PHOTO INDEX

    SITE: Royal Hall. Hill End
    Date: 2008 — 2009

    General Description:Royal Ha[...]S
    0168 As for 0167 N
    0036 Clay floor at northern end E
    0037 Clay floor with stone piers SE
    0048[...]
    [...],-\c.:r"u\n-_?



    PHOTO INDEX

    SITE: Royal Hall, Hill End
    Date: 2008 - 2009

    General Description:Roy[...]
    [...],¢.t;rt',1u.n



    PHOTO INDEX

    SITE: Royal Hail, Hill End
    Date: 2008 — 2009

    General Description:R[...]
    PHOTO INDEX

    SITE: Royal Hall, Hill End

    Date: 2008 — 2009



    General Descripti[...]
    PHOTO INDEX

    SITE: Royal Hall, Hill End
    Date: 2008 — 2009

    General Descriptioano[...]
    PHOTO INDEX

    SITE: Royal Hall. Hill End

    Date: 2008 — 2009



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    General[...]o

    Detail of stones

    Stones and clay

    The eastern end of dump
    Dump and stone

    As for 1120

    As fo[...]
    PHOTO INDEX

    SITE: Royal Hall, Hill End
    Date: 2008 — 2009

    General Description:Royal Ha[...]1134 Posts and clay dump S
    1135 Posts at eastern end of excavation S
    1155 Posts and stage timbe[...]

    TXT

    THE ROYAL HALL
    HILL END
    ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION




    CULTURAL[...]
    THE ROYAL HALL
    HILL END

    ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION[...]
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End 2009


    T[...]rtaken at the Royal Hall located at Beyers Avenue Hill End. The investigation was carried
    out as part[...]
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End 2009[...]
    Archaeological Investigation Royal Hall Hill End 200[...]works required for portions of the Royal Hall at Hill End. The
    works were required for the storeroom and st[...]a place of high archaeological sensitivity in the Hill End
    Archaeological Zoning Plan. It is within the Core[...]gnificance of this site. It is a component of the Hill End
    Historic Site, an item on the State Heritage Regi[...]; Conservation Management Strategy The Royal Hall Hill End
    3 Andrew Long (2002); Hill End Historic Site Archaeological Landscape Man[...]
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End 2009




    TH[...]ortions 120 and 174, Section 10 of the
    Village of Hill End, Parish of Tambaroora, County of Wellington. The[...]g room entered from Beyers Avenue. At the eastern end is a
    raised stage. The building has a sepa[...]
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End 2009




    CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE


    Hill End as an historic site has national significance. Th[...]It is an important component of the village of Hill End.

    • It has a high level of integrity.[...]igh.

    Generally the archaeological assemblages of Hill End have been assessed to be of national[...]icance within the towns.




    4Andrew Long (2002); Hill End Historic Site Archaeological Landscape Man[...]
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End
    .III[...]
    Archaeological Investigation Royal Hall Hill End[...]
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End[...]g. An archaeological management
    plan prepared for Hill End in 2002 identified the cottage as a site of archa[...]vention.




    e Andrew Long and Associates (2002), Hill End Historic Site Archaeological Landscape Management[...]; Archaeologicallnvestiaation Haeffiger's Cottage Hill End




    CRM for NPWS[...]
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End 2009[...]
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End 2009




    CON[...]813-1822
    there is no evidence to suggest that the Hill End district came under European influence until
    the[...]his period are' known to have been established at Hill End.

    Alluvial gold was first discovered near Tambaroora in 1851. Gold was then found in Hill End
    Creek in 1852 and by 1853 most readily accessible[...]began in the mid-1850s on elevated land near Bald Hill.

    An unplanned town grew up around the diggings. A formal street plan was laid in 1859. The
    place was named Hill End in 1867.

    Reef mining reached a peak around 1872 matched by the expansion of the township. By the
    end of the 1870s mining activity had dwindled althoug[...]d into the
    early years of the twentieth century.

    Hill End continued to decline during the War Years and Dep[...]ommunity
    development to the majority of places in Hill End.




    CRM for NPWS[...]
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End[...]nged to the earliest period of mining activity at
    Hill End associated with the exploitation of Hawkins Hill in the 1860s. The alternative to this
    association[...]v. .
    Plan of the village of Hill End in 1859; the red star just to the north of the la[...]AO Map 3134

    8 Andrew Long and Associates (2002); Hill End Historic Site Archaeological Landscape Management Plan: Volume 2
    9 Design for the Vii/age of Hill End 1859: SRO AO Map 3134
    10 Plan of the Vii/age of Hill End 1871: SROAO Map 3135




    CRM for NPWS[...]
    Archaeological Investigation Royal Hall Hill End 20[...]hree brothers from Cornwall who came as miners to Hill End. Phillip is said to have built a
    house and other[...]r mine, which
    had commenced operations on Hawkins Hill in 1866. It made him a wealthy man. By 1872 he
    obtained formal title to the land at the northern end of Tambaroora Street. He was certainly in
    possess[...]ric Martin and Associates (1999): The Roval Hotel Hill End Conservation Plan; 09
    12 Hill End Reports of Inspections of Licenced Premise[...]
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End 2009[...]e Royal Hotel. A block
    was chosen at the southern end of Tambaroora Street. Possibly because of insuffi[...]ric Martin and Associates (1999); The Royal Hotel Hill End Conservation Plan; 7-10



    CRM for NPWS[...]
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End 2009


    Ano[...]•




    Detail of Hill end panorama between 1872 and 1875
    Source ML: Home an[...]1870s business began to dry up for the hotels in Hill End. This was due to a
    decline in population r[...]
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End[...]
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End 2009




    T[...]ed the Royal Hotel) was a prominent
    Mason at the end of the nineteenth century. It has been speculated[...]ral painting produced by the artists that came to Hill End
    from the 1950s. It is still used for community pu[...]Eyre quoted in Ibid: 17
    21 H. Hodge (1997); The Hill End StOry Book 3



    CRM for NPWS[...]
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End 2009




    T[...]ing east-west with a stage
    at the eastern end. It has an entry from Beyers Avenue.[...]
    Archaeological Investigation Royal Hall Hill End[...]
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End[...]
    [...]rYDi




    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End




    THE SKILLlON

    The walls of the skill ion are[...]und.

    The eastern wall has a door at the northern end that leads outside to the yard and a windo[...]
    Archaeological Investigation Royal Hall Hill End[...]
    Archaeological Investigation Royal Hall Hill End[...]
    Archaeological Investigation Royal Hall Hill End[...]
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End[...]
    Archaeological Investigation Royal Hall Hill End 2009[...]
    Archaeological Investigation Royal Hall Hill End[...]
    [...]toreroom
    Hill End 2009
    Metres
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End 2009




    THE STAGE


    The stage is at the eastern end of the hall and is part of the original co[...]
    Archaeological Investigation Royal Hall Hill End[...]gular dump of clay that is
    covered at the western end by a many large pieces of stone. It has no[...]
    Archaeological Investigation Royal Hall Hill End[...]und is the large raised clay mound at the southem end of the excavation.




    CRM for NPWS[...]
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End[...]with large pieces of stone laid over the western end.




    View to the south-eastern corner of t[...]
    Archaeological Investigation Royal Hall Hill End[...]
    Archaeological Investigation Royal Hall Hill End[...]
    [...]Investigation
    Royal Hall Stage Area
    Hill End 2009
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End 2[...]
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End 200[...]
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End 2009




    R[...]the one of the
    primary research questions of the Hill End Archaeological Plan being knowledge of the[...]
    Archaeological Investigation: Royal Hall Hill End 2009[...]Review of Environmental Factors Royal Hall Hill End

    Robin Aitken (1987) A Watching Brief at the Royal Hotel Hill End
    Natio[...]Hall
    Hill End

    Harry Hodge (1997) The Hill End Story Book 3; Memories and Vignettes
    Hill End Publications. Toorak.

    Andrew Long & Associates (2202) Hill End Historic Site Archaeological[...]artin and Associates (1999) Royal Hotel Hill End NSW Conservation Plan[...]iates
    And Craig Burton (1991) Hill End Historic Landscapes and Gardens Study[...]Plan of the Village of Hill End 1871[...]Plan of the Village of Hill End 1859[...]Plan of the Village of Hill End 1872[...]3136

    American and Australasian Hill End Panorama c.1871
    Photographic Company[...]173


    American and Australasian Hill End Panorama c.1872-1875
    Photographic Company[...]
    PHOTO INDEX
    SITE: Royal Hall, Hill End

    Date: 2008 - 2009

    General Description:[...]
    PHOTO INDEX
    SITE: Royal Hall, Hill End

    Date: 2008 - 2009

    General Description:[...]
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    SITE: Royal Hall, Hill End

    Date: 2008 - 2009

    General Description:Royal H[...]0038 Floor deposit, piers on northern end of room E
    0106[...]
    [...]am
    PHOTO INDEX
    SITE: Royal Hall, Hill End

    Date: 2008 - 2009

    General Oescription:Royal H[...]0036 Clay floor at northern end E[...]
    PHOTO INDEX
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    Date: 2008 - 2009

    General Description:[...]
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    Date: 2008 -2009

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    SITE: Royal Hall, Hill End

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    Date: 2008 - 2009

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    Date: 2008 - 2009

    General Description:Royal H[...]W
    1113 The eastern end of dump S
    1120[...]
    [...]am
    SITE: Royal Hall, Hill End

    Date: 2008 - 2009

    General Description:Royal H[...]1135 Posts at eastern end of excavation S
    1155[...]