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Gympie goldfield and Mary River head

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, early Gympie merchant 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

1867 gold discovery that famously rescued the colony's finances; a dense field-and-town bottle footprint on the upper Mary.

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