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Miri first oil-well company town fringe

Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: tins.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Shell drilled Malaysia's first oil well on Canada Hill in 1910 and built a company port town below it; early oil-camp tips ring the town fringe.

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