The Pearce Family Cemetery is situated on a rise almost at the highest point of the land on Seven Hills Road North and is surrounded by paddocks. It is a small cemetery of 464.5m2.
There are no traditional cemetery trees here. The largest tree is a conifer and this is outside the fencing and there are three more conifers inside the fence. There are two jacarandas, three natives and three other small trees.
There is a wooden post and rail fence completely surrounding the cemetery but this is not the original fence, nor is the iron gate original. The posts at the side of the gate are painted, as is the gate. The central feature is the large family vault surmounted by a stone sarcophagus dedicated to those of the Pearce family who died in the 1870s and the adjacent granite obelisk dedicated to members of the Archdall family) is a most prominent landmark. There is much conjecture as to whether bodies were moved from St John’s, Parramatta to this cemetery, whether just the headstones were moved or whether other headstones were placed here. The vault is clearly large enough to hold twenty coffins. It is approximately 10 metres x 4 metres. There are three single brick-edged rectangles on western side of the vault. These mark the three separate entrances into the vault. The remaining graves, plaques and headstones are against the fences. These are mainly simple upright sandstone slabs with sandstone edging and some have concrete on top but they are mostly too overgrown to state this for sure. There are some granite headstones on a sandstone backing. There is one open-book headstone and one white marble headstone with some carving of flowers. There are no footstones. Only on one grave can the name of a monumental mason (Murphy) be seen. There are apparently many more burials in the cemetery than there are markers.
It is enclosed by a post and rail fence with iron gate and solid wooden gate posts. (Sinclair 1999) - Taken from NSW Environment & Heritage
The cache is a small container, its size restricted by its receptacle. It is not on the ground.