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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.
Gold
Old bottles
Codd and soda bottlesAlso 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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