Posted by Jean-Yves on Feb 18, 2020
The oldest known Australian example of a communal type of Irish settlement has been ‘unearthed’ in a dusty paddock in rural South Australia.
An extensive geophysical study of the Baker’s Flat Irish settlement site near Kapunda has found the first—and possibly largest—clachan in Australia, says Flinders archaeologist Susan Arthure whose Ph.D. investigations of Irish history and archaeology in SA led her to the site in what appears to be a featureless paddock near the former mining and farming community.
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