Explore / Oceania / Queensland
Queensland
Palmer River goldfield and Maytown camps
Old dump ground Source-confirmed findsRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Gold
Old bottles
Codd and soda bottlesAlso reported: colonial bitters, Chinese-camp opium tins, brownware, rice-wine and soy jars.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: BLM Alaska (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
colonial bottle era, historically mapped
Heart of the 1870s Palmer River rush with a huge Chinese mining population; largely a protected relic landscape, so treat as look-not-dig unless properly permitted.
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