Otago
Cromwell (old town) at the Clutha and Kawarau junction
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Gold
Old bottles
Stoneware ginger beersAlso reported: stoneware, Hamilton and Codd sodas, colonial bitters and schnapps, and Chinese-camp material from the river-junction diggings; much of the old town lies under Lake Dunstan.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: BLM Alaska (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
colonial bottle era, historically mapped
Dunstan goldfield from 1862; the old town was flooded by Lake Dunstan in 1992-93. Retrolens covers the area (1936-2005); specific historic map year unverified, set null.
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