Bridge 4251 over Hotham River, Fourteen Mile Brook Rd, Dwarda

Values

• Although impacted by later works, the place demonstrates materials and construction methods used by the Public Works Department to build railway bridges during the 1920s.
• The place is associated with the growth and decline of rural railway networks in the inter-war and post-war periods respectively.

Physical Description

Bridge 4251 is 16 spans with 15 piers, 4.62 meters wide and 74.98 meters long. It is made of round timber. The road surface was overlayed in February 1994. Bridge 4251 is over Aboriginal Heritage Site ID 27935 (Hotham River). Vegetation (Melaleucas and native grasses) clearing is required. Already cleared areas with be utilized as much as possible.

History

Noongar people living in the southwest of the continent during the pre- and early contact period can broadly be described as comprising small family groups moving through the landscape in response to seasonal change, utilising a toolkit of wooden and flaked stone tools and grinding stones, notably of quartz, dolerite and chert. The artistic culture of the Noongar people was expressed in painted and engraved art in a wide variety of forms, relating to a complex spiritual worldview that incorporated a connection to the natural world, and the remembrance or ongoing influence of ancestral and spiritual figures.
In the region around Wandering, the Noongar groups were known as the Binjareb (also recorded as Pinjarup). Groups of families who may have totalled 100 people lived in the region and moved between the coast and forests. These groups utilised the natural resources of the area, coming together annually to take advantage of the cyclical abundance of various food sources. In the case of the Binjareb, the fish traps at Balgarrup were a series of communal structures that provided for such events.

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