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Northern Territory
Pine Creek goldfield and Chinese camps
Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Gold
Old bottles
Stoneware ginger beersAlso reported: Codd and Hamilton sodas, colonial bitters, and Chinese-camp opium tins, brownware, rice-wine and soy jars.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: BLM Alaska (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Why this spot
colonial bottle era, historically mapped
1870s goldfield along the overland telegraph line, worked heavily by Chinese miners from Darwin; strong camp and Chinese-material deposits.
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