Victoria
Ballarat goldfields city
Old dump ground Source-confirmed findsRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Gold
Old bottles
Codd and soda bottlesAlso 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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