ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH QUESTIONS FOR PARRAMATTA QUESTIONS FOR EARLY COLONIAL SITES (1788-1840's)  SURVIVAL OF THE BRITISH COLONY – ROSE HILL SETTLEMENT Nature of the First Fleet settlement of Rose Hill and the beginning of British penetration into the hinterland of Sydney Cove, to assist with the...

These two chess pieces were made of bone and found below the floor of two workers' cottages of the Victorian period at the Darling Quarter site, Darling Harbour, Sydney. Each component was individually sawn, turned, carved and polished. Probably made in Britain for a burgeoning...

This locally-made jug is biochrome-coloured with pale yellow slip, dark red colouring on the neck and upper handle with impressed rouletting around the neck, and interior yellow lead glaze. The jug is made from fine white clay and has three portrait medals on three faces,...

Parramatta 3rd Convict Hospital – double broad arrow bricks, 1817 During the 2006 excavation of the 3rd convict hospital at Parramatta some of the convict-made sandstock bricks were found to have two broad arrow marks. The broad arrow is a mark to indicate government manufacture…