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Bendigo (Sandhurst) 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 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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