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South Australia
Burra copper mine and township
Old dump ground Source-confirmed findsRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Nails and fittings
Old bottles
Stoneware ginger beersAlso reported: Codd and Hamilton sodas, colonial bitters, and Cornish and Welsh miner household stoneware.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Why this spot
colonial bottle era, historically mapped
The Monster Mine from 1845, one of the colony's earliest great copper mines with famous creek-bank dugout settlements; largely a protected relic landscape.
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