ANU Springbank island archaeology dig underway
Channel: ANU TV
Date: 13/04/2015

The Australian National University (ANU) has begun an archaeological dig on Lake Burley Griffin's Springbank Island. This project, funded by ACT Heritage, hopes to unearth evidence for Canberra’s first European (and even earlier Indigenous) settlement at the site.
 
The location is thought to be the site of one of the first European homesteads in the Canberra region, with the Springbank property marked out by Deputy Surveyor-General Robert Hoddle in May 1832. It became an island when Lake Burley Griffin was created in 1963.

More than 100 ANU students will take part in the dig, which finishes with a public open day on Saturday 18 April.