Flat Rock Unidentified site inspection and artefact analysis
Author/s Ross Anderson
Year of publication 2015
Report Number: 294
In February 2015 Mr Ben Milner reported discovering, and recovering ferrous and copper alloy fastenings concreted into rock holes at Flat Rock, 30km south of Geraldton, and handed in the items to the WA Museum for analysis. The materials appeared to be related to a shipwreck, and a site inspection was subsequently conducted with Mr Milner on 29 June 2015 to investigate the site further. The nature and type of the finds recovered support the identification that the remains are likely from a portion of the wreck of a vessel constructed around the mid-19th century. Aboriginal oral histories describe a wreck in the vicinity of the Greenough River mouth, that is believed to have occurred prior to European colonisation of the area in 1850-51
