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The following fieldwork may be of interest to anyone visiting
Australia during July 2007.

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS – MILL POINT ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT

Great Sandy National Park, Lake Cootharaba, Noosa, Australia

Mill Point is the site of one of the earliest timber settlements in
Queensland. From the 1860s to the 1890s, timber from the Cooloola
area was logged, and milled at the sawmill on Lake Cootharaba. An
extensive tramway complex was built to move logs and timber throughout
the area, and flat-bottomed paddle-wheel boats towed punts of sawn
timber through Lakes Cootharaba and Cooroibah to Tewantin, where the
timber was loaded onto the company’s steamer and taken to Brisbane.
The mill workers and their families lived at the site and there was a
school, hotel and stores, as well as a cemetery.

Archaeological survey and excavation has been undertaken at the site
since 2004. This will be the seventh session of fieldwork at the site.


WHEN: 8 – 13 July 2007

WHERE: Mill Point, Great Sandy National Park, Lake Cootharaba (30
minutes north of Noosa on Australia's famous Sunshine Coast)

WHAT: Broad-scale survey of various areas around the mill settlement
including:

Systematic survey of purported location of the mill school site
Surface survey of open area around extant chimney from farmhouse to
assess remains from farm period and mill period and further
archaeological potential
Pedestrian survey up to and along Kin Kin creek to investigate other
remains in the landscape from the mill and later periods


COST: Participants will be required to cover their own food and
accommodation costs. Accommodation will be at the Apollonian Hotel,
Boreen Point at $15 per person per night for shared 4-bunk rooms. All
participants will contribute $35 for the week towards breakfast and
lunch (this cost also includes one group dinner). Participants will
be responsible for their own dinner. Basic kitchen facilities are
available at the Apollonian accommodation and meals can be purchased
at the Apollonian Hotel or local shops.


APPLYING: Please forward a copy of your CV either via email to Karen
Murphy k.murphy2@uq.edu.au or to Steve Nichols s.nichols@uq.edu.au or
post to Mill Point Archaeological Project, PO Box 6088, St Lucia, QLD,
4067. Applications close on Monday 4 June 2007 (flexible).
Successful applicants will be notified by email in mid-June so please
ensure your email address is current.


For further information about the site and past fieldwork activities,
please check out the project website at
http://www.atsis.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=42037