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six types - 's' hooks, pegs with a 'looped head', double-ended hooks 15­
20cm long, lengths of wire, improvised kerosene-can bucket handles, and
"short lengths of chain with a wire hook at one or both ends" - were for
hanging 'things' within the roof area of huts, to keep them out of the way or
away from rodents etc..
8.1 Chinaman's Well
8.1.1 Modern Site Features
Apart from the windmill at Chinaman's Well which was re-erected in 1978
after collapsing into the old well excavation, modern features at
Chinaman's Well comprise sheep watering facilities, a substantial stone
tank, fencing and gates. The construction and repair of these has led to an
undetermined degree of site disturbance.
Additional to the present, modern features the site has been used for
watering sheep, cattle, goats and horses for many years, and evidence of
earlier generations of stock watering facilities abounds. This takes the form
of remnant foundations for watering troughs, old fencing wire, and iron
bore casing. The evidence is highly disturbed, rough coils of fencing wire
complete with wooden posts, being piled on top of the stone hut ruin and
weighed down with an axle shaft, and chunks of concrete foundations and
lengths of bore casing being scattered across the site. In respect to these
items it was considered unnecessary and perhaps impossible to establish
a reliable chronology, and for the purpose of my research they have been
disregarded.
8.1.2 Early Site Features
The windmill at Chinaman's Well is situated adjacent to the well site. When
the sides of the well eroded, the mill collapsed into the excavation. Harry
Blore re-erected the mill in 1978 at which time substantial quantities of
'flood debris' were dumped into the old well. Harry stated this was done
partly to prevent rabbits from using the build-up of debris to gain access to
and drown in the stone tank. However, as already stated, it is very possible
some of this 'debris' was the ruins of tamped-earth structures. Photograph
12 was taken of 'debris' which remained on the site in 1988. By 1994 this
had collapsed and been trampled by mobs of sheep.
A number of other mounds of earth at the site could have had similar
origins to that photographed, and an area of packed earth associated with
a small pen was identifiable in 1988. None of these features were
associated with the surface scatter of artefactual material.
The most prominent older feature of the site is the ruin of a stone hut thirty
meters south the original well. This ruin remains much as it was in 1988,
being protected by a fence between it and the watering facilities, and in