Dutton Park Fishing and Tool-Making Area

Stage Number: MBSH.02.01.15

Group: Southern

Local Study Area: Dutton Park-South Woolloongabba-Buranda

Epoch: Early 19th Century

Street Address: Ovens Head and back of South Brisbane (Dutton Park) Cemetery

Latitude & Longitude: -27.49886111,153.0225

Time Link: 1823

Map Link: 1840

Image Time Point: 1840

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An Aboriginal stone artifact site – tool-making probably part of the Boggo Road Camp. The area was still a major Aboriginal fishing and meeting place in the 1950s.

Citations

Ray Kerkhove, 2015, Aboriginal Campsites of Greater Brisbane (Salisbury: Boolarong), 188.

Image Citations

Map References

QSA. QSA Series ID 4314, Survey Plans, Charts and Maps of Moreton Bay Settlement and Queensland. 4 chains to the inch. Town of Brisbane by Surveyor Robert Dixon, Assistant Surveyor, Mar 1840. 4 chains to an inch. 714286