Dr Builth is Landscape Archaeologist with special interest in Culturally Modified Trees Tree E3 to be destroyed by Vicroads this month if they have their way ..... Tree E3 is located on the route ".E3 is the perfect CMT (culturally modified tree) as it fits the criteria presented in this report for a hollow red gum chosen by a family group to become a cultural activity place for them and which its interior space was then enhanced in size after having an entrance constructed. It was fire-proofed by flame as supported by the uniformity of previous burning and charcoal build up within the tree trunk hollow. And resulted in a large, wide, smooth-surfaced basal hollow. The wide collar around the entrance can clearly be seen to feature the parallel ‘crease’ lines emanating like rays from the entrance and which result from cutting into green wood when it is still growing. The entrance is smooth and well-used and the perfect size to enable entry but still provide protection from bad weather. It faces an easterly direction as often is the case. There is aged, unburnt wood in the opening, with no obvious reason for it not to have burned at the same time as the interior of the hollow if a fire had entered from the outside to the inside. There is also no burning around the entrance or exterior of the tree. Entrance and hollow The resulting space would have served many many generations to come in many different ways. It is a multi-functional space which would have included shelter and most likely the excavation within it for a ground oven to bake during winter in a protected place. It may have included birthing and /or post-natal shelter or a myriad of activities that included shelter.E3 is one of the finest examples still in existence of a culturally modified habitation tree which is still living and deserves protection." ~ Heather Builth 2017