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West Coast

Ross goldfield town, Totara River, West Coast

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

GoldGold
Old bottlesOld bottles
Stoneware ginger beersStoneware ginger beers

Also reported: stoneware, Hamilton and Codd sodas, colonial bitters, hotel and miners'-camp dumps and sluiced-ground scatter.

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

Rich alluvial field from 1865. Retrolens covers the area (1936-2005); specific historic map year unverified, set null.

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