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Endeavour River wharves and Charlotte Street

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Stoneware ginger beersStoneware ginger beers
Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles

Also 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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