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Kolar Gold Fields mining camp and Little England lines

Old dump ground Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Coins and tokensCoins and tokens
Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles

Also reported: crockery.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Unknown (Public domain).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Deep gold mines run by John Taylor and Sons from the 1880s with a British company settlement nicknamed Little England; mine dumps and bungalow compounds span sixty working years.

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