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Queensland
Endeavour River wharves and Charlotte Street
Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Stoneware ginger beers
Codd and soda bottlesAlso reported: colonial bitters, opium tins and Chinese-camp brownware and rice-wine jars, goldfields camp glass.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
colonial bottle era, historically mapped
Boom port for the Palmer River rush from 1873 with a very large Chinese population; short, intense occupation left rich waterfront and camp material.
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