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New South Wales

Turon goldfields town

Old dump ground Source-confirmed findsRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

GoldGold
Old bottlesOld bottles
Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles

Also reported: applied-top spirits, colonial bitters, stoneware ginger beer and clay pipes across old camp and rubbish ground. Chinese diggings nearby can yield opium tins, brown-glazed Chinese storage and wine jars and celadon ceramics; treat any such site as culturally significant..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: BLM Alaska (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

colonial bottle era, historically mapped

Documented 1870s gold boomtown, briefly one of the largest inland towns in NSW; prime goldfields bottle ground but heavily protected.

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