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New South Wales
Turon River gold 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 around the old diggings and township. 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
One of the earliest Turon River rush towns of the 1850s, a documented goldfields settlement on the river.
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