# The writer reports that the first pier at Williamstown was built of boulders from the weathered lava surface. > Cite as: PLOT record c/4PPM-78 v1, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria (1915), reported by source - **Address:** c/4PPM-78, version 1 of 1 (https://www.plot.eco/c/4PPM-78) - **Value:** The first pier (at Williamstown) was a rough stone structure, boulders from the decomposing lava surface being used, as more readily obtained than timber. (Historical passage) - **About:** Williamstown - **Kind:** Reported by source - **Who said it:** Reported by community - **Period:** 1915 - **Checked:** Reviewed (step 3 of 4): PLOT checked the claim against its source. This is not independent verification. Checked by a person. - **Open questions:** None open - **Source:** The Victorian naturalist, 32, 1915-1916 (Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria), p. 70, victoriannatural32fiel, leaf 84, printed page 70 - **The snippet in PLOT:** - **How they know:** accounts-core@0.1.0: screen\_passage@1, extract\_passage@1 (claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session)); locator victoriannatural32fiel, leaf 84, printed page 70 - **Limitations:** A writer's account: context and a reason to look again, never a measurement. The writer's words for the place are kept; silence elsewhere is not absence. - **Editions:** october-26th-release - **How we found this:** Found under sourcing protocol accounts-core@0.1.0, for the question "Changes people made", in historical\_archives. Screened in on an AI proposal (Claude Opus 5.5 (AI), for review). Extracted with claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session), prompt extract\_passage@1; a person reviewed it before publication. - Query: Williamstown \| Williams Town \| Williams-town \| Point Gellibrand \| Gellibrand's Point \| Gellibrand Point \| Jawbone \| Greenwich Bay in archive.org/victoriannatural32fiel (archive.org OCR text, local full-text match) - Screening: include (meets criteria): The first pier at Williamstown built of boulders from the lava surface. ## History - Version 1 (this version): first published version --- Machine-readable: https://www.plot.eco/c/4PPM-78.json Cite as: PLOT record c/4PPM-78 v1, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria (1915), reported by source