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New South Wales
Orange and Ophir goldfields district
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 around old township and diggings sites. 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).
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Why this spot
colonial bottle era, historically mapped
Town near Ophir, the site of Australia's first payable gold in 1851, built out as a district centre through the bottle era.
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