Otago
St Bathans goldfield town and Blue Lake, Manuherikia
Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Gold
Old bottles
Stoneware ginger beersAlso reported: stoneware, Hamilton and Codd sodas, colonial bitters, Chinese-camp material, hotel and camp dumps around the hydraulically sluiced ground.
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
Deep-lead and hydraulic sluicing town from 1863; Blue Lake is the old sluiced pit. Retrolens covers the area (1936-2005); specific historic map year unverified, set null.
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