Excavations at Nursery Swamp 2, Gudgenby Nature Reserve, Australian Capital Territory

Abstract

There have been rumours since the 1880s of a prehistoric painting site in the vicinity of Nursery Swamp, Australian Capital Territory (ACT). A report of the paintings in the nearby rockshelters at Rendezvous Creek and Yankee Hat appeared in print in 1933 (Daley), and drawings of these were later published by Flood (1973, 1980). However, rumour persisted that more paintings had been identified by Charles Henry McKeahnie who, in the middle late 19th century was a major landholder in what is now southern ACT. He was master of three extensive montane valleys, Gudgenby, Orroral and Booroomba, and the intervening high country. McKeahnie had a substantial homestead in each valley, and his route between them (primarily for stock) can still be identified. At one point the route skirts the northern fringe of Nursery Swamp. Â

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