Stage Number: MBNH.08.04.04
Group: Northern
Local Study Area: Alderley-Newmarket
Epoch: Early 19th Century
Street Address: Sylvester Street side of Eildon Hill Reserve, 116 Constitution Rd, Windsor
Latitude & Longitude: -27.43066667,153.02566667
Time Link: 1823
Map Link: 1865
Image Time Point: 1865
An area of Aboriginal platform Burials. Bodies were evidently prepared beforehand at Sedgley Park (Aboriginal funerary practice had many phases). During the 1850s, Aborigines threatened and drove off settlers hunting birds near the hill.
Ray Kerkhove, 2015, Aboriginal Campsites of Greater Brisbane (Salisbury: Boolarong), 72.
QSA. QSA Series ID 2043 City of Brisbane and Suburbs Maps – A1A Series. 1 chain to the inch. Plan of subdivision of section 30 City of Brisbane. 1 chain to an inch. Surveyor General’s Office, Brisbane.(quarter-size). 634488
