The ACT Heritage Council has provisionally registered Mulligans Flat Aboriginal Stone Quarry and two Aboriginal places in Hume, declaring them to be important places with tangible links to the traditions of the ACT’s Aboriginal people.
Chairperson of the Council, David Flannery said the quarry was a rare type of place in the ACT, with only five quarries in the region.
“Large and important sites, such as the quarry, have a strong and special relationship to the Ngunnawal people and it is an excellent place that demonstrates culture and practices,” Mr Flannery said.
He said the two other places in Hume titled HA12 and HAC2 were intermittently used as campsites and bore research potential.
“As places that demonstrate and maintain links between ancestors, people and the land, Aboriginal Places HA12 and HAC2 are significant to the Traditional Custodians of the ACT,” Mr Flannery said.
“Future research at the landscape scale could show HA12 and HAC2 within their Hume context to reveal new information regarding cultural connections across the broader landscape and to Country.”
He said the Heritage Council valued the knowledge of representative Aboriginal organisations who assisted with the assessment of the places as well as the submission of original nominations.
“The Council is always encouraged to see greater representation of Aboriginal places on the ACT Heritage Register”.
The heritage assessment of the places can be accessed at this PS News link.
