Waikato, Waikato Region
Thames goldfield township, Grahamstown and Shortland, Firth of Thames
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Gold
Old bottles
Stoneware ginger beersAlso reported: Hamilton and Codd sodas, colonial bitters and schnapps, miners' pipe and crockery scatter, hotel and battery-town dumps along the foreshore fill.
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
Historic goldfield township well documented from 1867; Retrolens imagery covers the area (1936-2005). Specific historic map year unverified, set null.
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