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De Aar railway junction
Old dump ground Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: 1880s-1910s military tins, railway refuse.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Unknown (Public domain).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
The Cape system's great junction from 1884 and a massive Anglo-Boer War supply depot, leaving extensive railway and military dumps in the surrounding Karoo.
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