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Majura Valley (Winston-Gregson 1985; AASC 1995, 1998; Navin Officer Heritage Consultants 1998, 1999a & b,
       2001, 2006) and Campbell (Navin Officer Heritage Consultants 1997).

       Studies conducted in the Majura Valley to the northeast and east of Fairbairn Avenue have assessed a variety of landscape types.

       In 1998 AASC conducted a cultural heritage survey of the Army's Majura Field Firing Range at Majura, an area of approximately 39.5 km2. An estimated 15% of the study area was sampled by the survey, with survey transects biased toward existing ground exposures and riparian zones. Ground surface visibility encountered by the survey was 'on average low to moderate across the entire study area' and it was considered that the 'effective survey coverage' obtained was sufficient to have provided an effective assessment (AASC 1998:23). This study is, however, limited by a generalised and qualitative landform analysis and site specific management recommendations.

       Forty two Aboriginal sites were recorded during the Majura Field Firing Range study. The majority of Aboriginal sites were small scatters of stone artefacts with the largest scatter containing thirty visible artefacts. Five scarred trees were also recorded. Two hundred and twenty two stone artefacts were recorded within the total assemblage for the Firing Range.

       A detailed cultural heritage survey and assessment of a preferred Majura Valley Transport Corridor easement (Navin Officer Heritage Consultants 1999a) was conducted as part of a broader study investigating an appropriate alignment for the future construction of the Majura Parkway between the Federal Highway and Fairbairn Avenue. The proposed transport corridor was situated generally (within) 500 m west of the actual fluvial streamline of Woolshed Creek. The results of background research and field survey indicated that three Aboriginal artefact scatter sites were located within or close to the proposed easement.

       In 1999(b) Navin Officer Heritage Consultants was commissioned to undertake a project to identify places and areas of possible cultural heritage significance in those parts of the Majura Valley not already examined for cultural heritage values. Prior to this study, Thirty two Aboriginal sites and isolated finds had been recorded. These included seventeen open artefact scatters, one scarred tree, thirteen isolated finds and one artefact scatter with associated reported quarry or stone procurement site. The 1999(b) field survey resulted in a further nineteen artefact scatters, twenty six isolated finds, three scarred trees and one potential archaeological deposit being recorded for the valley.

       Navin Officer Heritage Consultants (1999b) noted a broad trend toward Aboriginal site location in valley floor and basal slope contexts. Within the small-scale landform categories, the most frequently recorded site contexts were: spurlines (41%), minor streamline margins (30%), major streamline margins (24%), terrace and alluvial flats (19%), basal slopes (17%), crests (14%), and mid slopes (12%). These