Explore / Oceania / New South Wales
New South Wales
Macquarie River town and goldfields hub
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Codd and soda bottles
GoldAlso reported: applied-top spirits, colonial bitters, camps and the river flats. 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: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0), BLM Alaska (Public domain).
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Why this spot
colonial bottle era, historically mapped
Oldest inland town in Australia and the supply centre for the 1851 western goldfields, with Chinese camps in the district.
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