Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Assessment Report UNSW Cliffbrook Campus, Coogee NSW The NSW State Heritage Inventory (incorporating the NSW State Heritage Register) was searched for Aboriginal heritage items within the suburb of Coogee. No items on either register within close proximity to the subject lands appear to be listed for their Aboriginal heritage values. Figure 8. Aboriginal sites registered on AHIMS within the vicinity of the subject land (Blue shading). Previous Archaeological Investigations The subject land and its surrounds have not been subject to archaeological assessment in the past. Investigations of rock engravings in the broader eastern suburbs area by Campbell in the 1890s and Fred McCarthy in the mid-twentieth century resulted in the recording of a number of sites around this area, based on both archaeological survey and resident knowledge (Campbell 1899; McCarthy 1983). Although neither study involved systematic archaeological survey, no engravings or axe grinding grooves were recorded within the Gordons Bay area. The closest 23 MARY DALLAS CONSULTING ARCHAEOLOGISTS PO BOX A281 ARNCLIFFE NSW 2205 TEL (02) 4465 2546 FAX (02) 8520 2006
[email protected] Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Assessment Report UNSW Cliffbrook Campus, Coogee NSW recorded engravings are four small fish on the northern side of Coogee Beach recorded by Campbell in the 1890s (AHIMS #45-6-0697) (Campbell 1899:10). There is currently only slender archaeological evidence of the Aboriginal use of the eastern suburbs dune system. The oldest and best defined evidence comes from the Randwick Destitute Children’s Asylum Cemetery at Prince of Wales Hospital (see below for details of this investigation).