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

Also 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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