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South Australia
Wallaroo copper smelters and port
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 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
Smelting town and copper port for the Moonta and Wallaroo mines from the 1860s; combined maritime and industrial deposits.
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