Victoria
Bendigo (Sandhurst) 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 and stoneware ginger beer across old workings and camps. 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
colonial bottle era, historically mapped
Immensely rich quartz and alluvial goldfield (formerly Sandhurst) with one of the largest Chinese populations in colonial Victoria.
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