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South Australia
Moonta copper mines and township
Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Nails and fittings
Old bottles
Stoneware ginger beersAlso reported: Codd and Hamilton sodas, colonial bitters, and Cornish-miner household stoneware.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
colonial bottle era, historically mapped
Richest of the 1860s Cornish copper towns of the Little Cornwall triangle; dense mine-camp and cottage deposits.
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