Victoria
Mount Alexander goldfields town
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 around old diggings and township 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
colonial bottle era, historically mapped
Centre of the fabulously rich Mount Alexander and Forest Creek rushes of the early 1850s.
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