SUMMARY

On 7 November 1864, George Whitfield, Australia’s most prominent gunsmith, was shot and killed in front of his King Street shop in Sydney by his competitor, Patrick McGlinn. Whitfield’s goods-in-trade were auctioned off and the remaining contents of the gun shop were discarded down an abandoned stone-lined well at the back of the property, which was excavated in 2010. The gun parts, ammunition and tools recovered from the well present a picture of a gunsmith’s workshop in colonial New South Wales. This artefact collection represents one of the first archaeological investigations of the gunsmithing trade in Australia.

概括

1864 年 11 月 7 日，澳大利亚最著名的枪匠乔治·惠特菲尔德 (George Whitfield) 在他位于悉尼国王街的商店前被他的竞争对手帕特里克·麦克格林 (Patrick McGlinn) 开枪打死。惠特菲尔德的贸易商品被拍卖，枪支商店的剩余物品被丢弃在该物业后面一口废弃的石砌井中，该井于 2010 年被挖掘。从井中回收的枪支零件、弹药和工具展示新南威尔士殖民地时期枪匠作坊的照片。该手工艺品收藏品代表了对澳大利亚枪械制造行业的首次考古调查之一。