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Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumSmaller pick
... Coal Creek Community Park & Museum 12 Silkstone Road ...8422.1 - Pickaxe- wooden handle, thickened and flared at one end to which is attached a narrow double-pointed pick head -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumMudstone with leaf fossils
... Coal Creek Community Park & Museum 12 Silkstone Road ...8421.1 - Rectangular wedge-shaped piece of mudstone showing numerous fossil leaves -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumLump of bllack coal
... Coal Creek Community Park & Museum 12 Silkstone Road ...8420.1 - Irregularly shaped piece of high-grade coal -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumBit of coal
... Coal Creek Community Park & Museum 12 Silkstone Road ...8419.1 - Overall ovoid, though flattened, piece of high-grade black coal -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumLongest spike chisel
... Coal Creek Community Park & Museum 12 Silkstone Road ...8418.1 - Long rod of octagonally cross-sectioned metal; one end is flared out from extensive hammering; the other end tapers to a square cross-sectioned point. -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumLong spike chisel
... Coal Creek Community Park & Museum 12 Silkstone Road ...8417.1 - Long rod of octagonal cross-sectioned metal, one end blunt and flared by repeated hammerings and one slightly flared-out pointed end with a square cross-section. -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumHollow drill bit
... Coal Creek Community Park & Museum 12 Silkstone Road ...8416.1 - Long hollow cylindrical tube capped at one end with a pointed bit and a flat ring with two short cylindrical projections sticking out. The central hollow is approximately 5cm shorter than the object itself -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumClay spade chisel
... Coal Creek Community Park & Museum 12 Silkstone Road ...8415.1 - Metal rod that flattens out into a wide, shovel-like paddle. Used to break though hard clay. -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumShorter hand chisel
... Coal Creek Community Park & Museum 12 Silkstone Road ...8414.1 - Hexagonal cross-section rod of metal with a square cross-sectional tip, and a wider disc-ring approximately 3/7th along it's length. -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumLonger hand chisel
... Coal Creek Community Park & Museum 12 Silkstone Road ...8413.1 - Long hexagonal cross-sectional tip, and a wider disc-ring 2/5ths along its length -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumHammered gad (chisel)
... Coal Creek Community Park & Museum 12 Silkstone Road ...8412.1 - Metal spike with extensively hammered flared end, and a tapering tip that shows signs of being sharpened: the very ground to a new angle. -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumBroken-tipped gad (chisel
... Coal Creek Community Park & Museum 12 Silkstone Road ...8411.1 - Long, narrow metal spike with tapered tip, broken at the very end. Shows slight flaring from hammering at blunt end. -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumGad (chisel)
... Coal Creek Community Park & Museum 12 Silkstone Road ...8410.1 - Short metal spike with tapered tip and flared head from repeated hammering. Tip appears to have been sharpened, then end ground to a new angle -
Coal Creek Community Park & Museum4 large nails
... Coal Creek Community Park & Museum 12 Silkstone Road ...unknown4 nails, 2 of which are similar to one another. the shortest has a roughly cubic base beneath the head and a screw-through the other end. the longest does not have a flared-out head, but along with this two matching nails (which do have flared heads) has a pointed tip with a square cross-section. -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumLong curved chisel
... Coal Creek Community Park & Museum 12 Silkstone Road ...8406.1 - Long chisel, half of which is curved and flattened; one end is well-hammered. Unflattened half is roughly octagonal in cross-section. -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumCurved forked chisel
... Coal Creek Community Park & Museum 12 Silkstone Road ...8405.1 - Forked, curved chisel; one end is well-hammered into a smoothly-curving surface. Use on mine rails, likely to lift rails by means of lever-action around railway spikes. -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumStraight chisel
... Coal Creek Community Park & Museum 12 Silkstone Road ...8404.1 - Chisel meant to be hammered into a rock face. -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumSmaller crowbar
... Coal Creek Community Park & Museum 12 Silkstone Road ...8403.1 - Crowbar- one end, bent, flattened and forked. The other mostly flattened, but also bent. -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumCrowbar
... Coal Creek Community Park & Museum 12 Silkstone Road ...8402.1 - It's a crowbar- forked end, bent, other end merely flattened. -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumRail spike
... Coal Creek Community Park & Museum 12 Silkstone Road ...8401.1 - As you'd expect: shard of metal with asymmetrically flattened head. -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumCollection of nails
... Coal Creek Community Park & Museum 12 Silkstone Road ...8400.1 to 9 - Conglomeration of nails, thick and rusted. Some are bent around others -
Coal Creek Community Park & Museum
joint reinforcement
... Coal Creek Community Park & Museum 12 Silkstone Road ...unknown8 thick metal strips with regularly-shaped holes, likely to secure the rails to the sleepers in the mines. -
Coal Creek Community Park & Museum
drill core samples
... Coal Creek Community Park & Museum 12 Silkstone Road ...purpose: unknown location: local7 different pieces of drill core samples of varying lengths and diameters -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumBrass scales, 1890 (Approx)
... Coal Creek Community Park & Museum 12 Silkstone Road ...8388.1 - Brass-faced spring-balance scales, with hook and rope-ring, rated up to 200 pounds.- Salter's spring balance No 20 made in England - Silvester's (?) patent to weigh 200lb -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumParallel ruler, Approxamitly between 1888 and 1892
... Coal Creek Community Park & Museum 12 Silkstone Road ...8387.1 - Parallel ruler. 8387.2 - Wooden case.- Ruler: flavelle and Roberts, Sydney and London. - Case: C. Ladgrove, Korumburra. -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumAnemometer and case, Approxamitly June 29th, 1909
... Coal Creek Community Park & Museum 12 Silkstone Road ...Calibration tests were made June 29th, 1909, all else is unknown.8386.1 - Biram's anemometer, 6 inch diameter, 5 dials, ten blades. "No. 1544," with wooden case and hand written note detailing applicable corrections after calibration tests. -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumManual, 1911 (Approx)
... Coal Creek Community Park & Museum 12 Silkstone Road ...Donated by Rosalind Hodgeson. Her grandfather was a mine inspector in Scotland and northern England.8385.1 - Book detailing a mine fireman's necessary knowledge. -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumSteel protractor, 1915 (Approx)
... Coal Creek Community Park & Museum 12 Silkstone Road ...8384.1 - Large steel protractor.- Troughton and simms, London. - G.H.G. -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumBrass protractor
... Coal Creek Community Park & Museum 12 Silkstone Road ...8383.1 - Brass protractor, marked down to 1, and with compass points- T.Bottoms -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumTerrestrite measuring equipment, 1888 (Approx)
... Coal Creek Community Park & Museum 12 Silkstone Road ...8382.1 - Metal (likely steel) protractor, marked down to 0.5, used mostly in map drafting. 8382.2 - Wooden red velvet-lined case.- Flavelle bros and Roberts, Sydney and Brisbane. - 6692 a s x- similar marks were made and scratched out. - a h x
