Reefton quartz-mining town, Inangahua River

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and minerals

Old bottles

Stoneware ginger beers

Also reported: Hamilton and Codd sodas, colonial bitters and schnapps, hotel and battery-camp dumps along the riverbanks.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

colonial bottle era, historically mapped