Archaeology on the Frontier

This blog is about research relating to frontier conflict and especially the Native Mounted Police in Queensland

European Women on the Frontier: Mary Ann Armit

09/21/2020.Reading time 22 minutes.

By Lynley Wallis and Heather Burke As with much history, the stories of women are largely missing from histories of the Native Mounted Police (NMP). Yet despite this absence it’s clear that most NMP camps were also occupied by women, both Aboriginal and European. Like most colonial women, the European wives of NMP officers faced […]

Uniform Buttons of the Native Mounted Police in Queensland, 1852–1904

09/03/2020.Reading time 26 minutes.

By Nic Grguric The stranger turned round and revealed a rather prepossessing face, and I noticed a row of glittering buttons, which at once proclaimed the native police officer (Queenslander, 25 January 1879, p.109). A considerable assemblage of uniform buttons were recovered from the archaeological fieldwork carried out at six Native Mounted Police (NMP) sites […]