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Victoria

Ballarat goldfields city

Old dump ground Source-confirmed findsRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

GoldGold
Old bottlesOld bottles
Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles

Also reported: applied-top spirits, colonial bitters, stoneware ginger beer and clay pipes across old lead, camp and privy ground. Chinese diggings nearby can yield opium tins, brown-glazed Chinese storage and wine jars and celadon ceramics; treat any such site as culturally significant..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: BLM Alaska (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1861 survey-plan era

One of the richest deep-lead goldfields in the world and site of the 1854 Eureka Stockade; classic documented goldfields bottle ground.

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