Small township in the geographic heart of Victoria. Lancefield
is a small and charming town of about 1000 people which is
situated in a rolling agricultural landscape at the geographic
centre of Victoria. The High Street boasts a central plantation
full of evergreens and there are a number of intact 19th-century
buildings which present an attractive streetscape. Lancefield is
located 73 km north of Melbourne on a road that heads north
through Bulla, Clarkesfield, Monegeetta and Romsey. It is a
growing dormitory area for those who work in Melbourne. Crucial
palaeontological finds have been made at Lancefield Swamp, on
the south-western edge of town (adjacent to Lancefield Sports
Ground). In an area of 2000 square metres, the skeletons of
about 10 000 animals were found in a 20-cm thick bone bed. There
is a strong predominance of extinct megafauna including Macropus
titan (a kangaroo twice the size of today's largest relative),
Diprotodon (a rhinoceros-sized wombat) and Genyornis (a giant
flightless bird), the