Otago
Lawrence and Gabriels Gully, Tuapeka
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Stoneware ginger beers
Sea potteryAlso reported: Otago's first-rush glass, Hamilton and Codd sodas, colonial bitters and schnapps, Chinese-camp glazed jars and pots, hotel and camp dumps around the gully and town.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0), NPS (Public domain).
Why this spot
colonial bottle era, historically mapped
Gabriels Gully sparked the Otago gold rush in 1861. Retrolens covers the area (1936-2005); specific historic map year unverified, set null.
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