Victoria
Maryborough 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 and stoneware ginger beer across old diggings and township 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 central Victorian goldfields town that grew from the early 1850s alluvial rushes.
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