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Namibia, Karas Region

Aus railway and POW camp site

Old dump ground Documented siteRestricted
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: camp refuse.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Unknown (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Railway village on the Luderitz line where a large German POW camp stood from 1915 to 1919, leaving camp refuse scattered on the desert plain.

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