The Bagot's Mill research project set out to investigate the ruin of a watermill at Ben Lomond in northern New England (NSW, Australia). Work commenced in 1979 but the fieldwork, excavations, archival searches, and artefactual analysis, continued for some years.
The original aim of the project was to test an hypothesis generated from the documentary sources: namely that the builder of the mill, Christopher Thomas Bagot, had made a mistake in building it at this place and that the mill woud not have been viable in the long term even if he had avoided bankruptcy soon after its construction ...