Stage Number: MBNH.09.02.01
Group: Old Town & River
Local Study Area: Petrie Terrace-Spring Hill-Bowen Hills
Epoch: Early 19th Century
Street Address: Brisbane Exhibition Grounds, towards junction of Bowen Bridge Road & Herston Road
Latitude & Longitude: -27.44944444,153.03125
Time Link: 1823
Map Link: 1865
Image Time Point: 1865
From pre-Contact times until at least the 1860s, Northside Brisbane’s most important Aboriginal Tournament Ground, where tribes met to hold duels and battles after Bora ceremonies. Since 1972, when Black Panthers marched from Musgrave Park to this site, Roma Street has also been the main forum for Aboriginal political protests and political speeches.
Ray Kerkhove, 2015, Aboriginal Campsites of Greater Brisbane (Salisbury: Boolarong), 99-101.
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
