Investigation into Stringybark Creek Police camp site
at the site of two huts some 200 metres south of the Kelly tree area.

This 1878 photo by photographer Burman of Bourke Street Melbourne is held by VPHU museum
VPM208 Carte de Visite, A.W. Burman Stringybark Creek Re-enactment . Reproduced with permission from the collection of Victorian Police.

The following image below was taken June 2009 at the same site viewed south more to the right but essentially the same view.
Dot 4 should be closer to the standing figure with dot 2 out of the picture left. The camera angles, lens type and height position of the camera
are difficult to replicate. For example, the original Burman photo above is a wide angle shot with the camera relatively low to the ground, and the back
ground details are quite unclear due to this a poor image, but Burman's first photo clearly shows the little hill slope as the standing figure indicates.




Below is a panoramic view of the whole site as seen through 360 degrees. The position of the rotation point was near the right margin.
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Explanation, Pink dot 1 is the foreground of the Burman photo behind which the Burman camera stood. The pink lines are an indication where the left and right photos margins would be on the ground, but this is only an estimate as photo distortions make it difficult to plot. In any case the area between the pink dots encompasses the ground as depicted in the original Burman photos. As the panorama pivots around a central point, this point is roughly where the right hand log lay. By comparison you will notice the skyline is more open than it was in 1878. The two vertical white lines roughly define the area of Burman1 photo which is shown below.



The Burman Photo of the Police camp 1878 where the troopers were shot by the Kellys
Image courtesy book by Keith McMenomy Ned Kelly- an Illustrated history.
Image Citation PROV  Burman photo -0030-010-001- VPRS 4966 
Consignment P0 Unit 2 Item 30 Record 1 Document: Photo of Wombat Ranges where troopers were shot.

 For further reading please visit the full webpage document for this investigation at www.ironicon.com.au

A scale map of the site can be seen at http://pixmaker.com.au/twohuts/images/twohutsscalemap2.jpg
The central point for the panorama was near the logs junction.