Convict-made brick with an arrow stamped in the centre of one face
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- Type
- Convict bricks
- Date
- 1788
- Place
- Richmond, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia
- Materials
- Clay
- Collection
- David Westcott collection no. 4
- Accession number
- 2002.0020.0002
Description
Convict brick with an arrow stamp in the centre of one face.
About the collection
This collection consists of five convict bricks that were purchased at public auction. The vendor is a private collector who advised that at least two of the bricks are from the Windsor/Richmond area of New South Wales. The convict era has long been of interest to historians but ordinary Australians have often been less than willing to embrace their convict origins. The shame of convict ancestry has only recently been replaced by pride. It is perhaps partly due to this shame that little material culture from the convict period remains. Convict-made bricks, because of their very nature, are among these few surviving objects. They provide a link to the earliest days of the British settlement of Australia.
Read live from the Museum's Collection API (12/11/2026, 4:58:11 am). Record last updated by the Museum 2025-02-17. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.