Aboriginal Midden Discovery: NSW South Coast 2024

This is a video of an Aboriginal Midden which was uncovered by the flood waters washing out the creek banks at a location in the Shoalhaven area of the NSW south coast. i was very fortunate to be the first person to notice and report this to parties concerned and having had many years of experience in the field of coastal dune restoration and land rehab, I knew what i was looking at when I discovered it. The age is , as yet, unkown, but judging by the depth of sand it was beneath, I could guess at, 500 or so years, maybe a lot more. Enjoy please.

[@jarnosaarinen4583]

Me & My Son Discovered a Miden in the Great Australian Bite Marine Park Lookout! Instead of taking the Track Back We Walked Straight through the Bush & Found it! I still have a couple Stone Knives & some Animal Bones!

[@Horatio411]

very cool mate

[@a24-45]

Nice find. Sometimes you see charcoal marks on the shells from when they were being roasted. Those big twisty conch-looking shells, you can always tell that a person has opened the shell from the holes in the shell always being in a certain place, it's not just natural or accidental breakage. The rocks throughout the site may have been used for opening the shells. Nostalgic to see the abalone shells; my dad his brother and my cousins used to dive for abalone off the rocks. That was decades ago, not many left close to the surface these days.

[@Horatio411]

Thanks for the cool commnents mate. i did have my eyes out for burnt bits too but a lot of stuff has been washed awy in the recent floods, plus the scoriation of sand and water over the years. plenty of beach coal there though. I did see the kind of things you mention, plenty of that stuff in it. cheers man

[@James-kv6kb]

Palya from SA