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F.3 Vegetation
Trees at Cox's Well are Red River Gums and Coolabahs. There is a
sparse scatter of grass but little saltbush.
F.4 Artefact Scatter
Protruding from the bank of the side creek are pieces of wire, and bits of
corrugated iron. The bank itself is comprised of fine soil overlying more
coarse material. Glass and pottery fragments appear to be eroding out of
the bank, and in the sandy bed of the creek are numerous metal
fragments, including items associated with harness and with the use of
wire rope.
The main features of the site are an eroded gully perhaps a meter and a
half deep, and the remains of a stone chimney.
The collapsed chimney has been constructed of crudely shaped stone.
Sitting on top of the stone is an axle which could possibly have been built
across the fireplace from which to hang a cooking utensils.
In the gully to the west of the chimney is some corrugated iron, the ring
from the hub of a wooden wheel, the lid from a circular cast iron pot, a
piece of sheet iron, and some black glass bottles. One of these is
reminiscent of a whiskey bottle.
Also in this erosion gully is an apple green glass bottle of similar
dimensions but with a very deeply indented base, pieces of a bed frame,
and some pottery, one piece of which has a green applied pattern and is
reasonably distinctive. There are also some pieces of iron - best described
as significant LUMPS of iron - and another piece of iron which appears to
be some kind of a shaft.
On the western bank of the gully are the remains of a hundred-gallon
ship's tank, some more iron and a heavy metal plunger about six inches
across which may relate to pumping apparatus.
There is another erosion gully which starts on the eastern side of the
chinmey ruin. This gully contains few surface artefacts, but upstream and
to the east of it is an extensive scatter of iron, some of which seems to be
associated with a wool press. Other items are files, a rasp, a roofing bolt,
and pieces of worked iron perhaps associated with a cart or dray. There
are also very small fragments of a bowl, decorated outside and in. The
decoration is of a bunch of grapes.
Further upstream are other artefacts. Part of a bottle protrudes from a
lump of soil, and closer to Evelyn Creek are more white pottery fragments,
and pieces of bottle glass. An axe head lies adjacent to the fence.