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Northern Territory
Palmerston (Darwin) port and old town
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, Chinese-camp opium tins and brownware, and stoneware.
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
Founded 1869 as Palmerston, the northern port and telegraph terminus with a large Chinese population serving the Pine Creek goldfields.
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