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Wallaroo copper smelters and port

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Nails and fittingsNails and fittings
Old bottlesOld bottles
Stoneware ginger beersStoneware ginger beers

Also 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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