Preserving artifacts: Gordon Morton

Uncle Gordon Morton speaks of his work with archaeologists to preserve artifacts and his desire to see a Darug tourist centre with a display of them built on the old Colebee and Maria Locke land grant site.

Related videos: Colebee’s land, Colebee land grant and the silcrete mine site. For more information on Maria Locke and Colebee, enter their names into the site search engine.

Keywords: Identity; values; heritage; material culture; archaeology; pre-settlement

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