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Charters Towers goldfield town

Old dump ground Source-confirmed findsRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

GoldGold
Old bottlesOld bottles
Stoneware ginger beersStoneware ginger beers

Also reported: Codd and Hamilton sodas, colonial bitters, stoneware and locally embossed sodas.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: BLM Alaska (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

colonial bottle era, historically mapped

One of the richest reef goldfields, a substantial 1870s-1900s city; heavy household and hotel bottle deposits around the old town and camps.

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