Down the Well Traditional Geocache
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There have been a number of archaeological digs in The Rocks. The site at 188 Cumberland Street is of state significance for its historical association with the No. 2 Watch House built in 1810, one of the first five police watch houses built in Sydney. Further along is the site of the Cumberland and Gloucester streets archaeological excavation of 1994 which became known as ‘The Big Dig’. The Big Dig was one of the most significant and influential urban excavation projects in Australia, and its importance extends beyond its intrinsic historical and archeological value: it played a big part in training a generation of archaeologists, it received considerable publicity at the time, and it has helped redefine how historians and archaeologists interpret life in The Rocks. A third excavation site is 28–30 Harrington Street. William Reynolds, an Irish blacksmith, was transported to Australia for life in 1815, aged 31, for highway robbery. He bought these sandstone dwellings and set up a forge where he shod horses and made tools, steel mills and wool presses for the wharves at Millers Point and Cockle Bay. Thousands of artefacts were dug up at this site, many of them from the well in the property’s rear courtyard. The artefacts included evidence of gruesome 19th century entertainment such as cock-fighting and dog-baiting, as well as fragments of cut glass tumblers, medical implements, medicine, perfume, pickle and ginger beer bottles, glass marbles, rib bones, rooster spurs, cat bones, whale teeth, cotton spools, English and Oriental ceramics, buttons, cork, musical instruments, tobacco pipes, ink wells, china dolls, figurines, brooches, pins and rubber galoshes.
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