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Mount Alexander goldfields town

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 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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