Waikato, Waikato Region
Coromandel town and harbour, early goldfield
Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Gold
Old bottles
Stoneware ginger beersAlso reported: Hamilton sodas, colonial bitters, coastal-trader glass from wharf-side hotel and store dumps.
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
One of NZ's earliest goldfields (1852). Retrolens covers the area (1936-2005); specific historic town map year unverified, set null.
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