Site Name Mt Eccles
Aboriginal Place Name
Language Group Dhauwurd wurrung
Colony PPD
Present State/Territory VIC
Police District Portland
Latitude -38.086
Longitude 141.912
Date Between 1 Jul 1847 and 31 Jul 1847
Attack Time day
Victims Aboriginal People
Victims Killed 30
Victims Killed Notes Killed: M more than 30 people, including babies F; Probable: M F; Possible: M F; Wounded: M F
Attackers Colonisers: Settler
Attackers Killed 0
Attackers Killed Notes Killed:M F;Wounded:M F
Transport Horse
Motive Opportunity
Weapons Used Firearms
Narrative According to A. Broughton, the historian of the Mills Family in the Western District, in 1847 a group of settlers guided by a 'half-civilised' Aborigine are purported to have launched a surprise attack at Mount Eccles, a favourite Aboriginal "guerrilla base", and killed more than 30 people and sparing not even babies.
Sources Clark ID 1995: 82; Clark ID 2000: 172. (Sources PDF)
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