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Araluen valley alluvial field

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Clay pipe stemsClay pipe stems

Also reported: dredge-era metal.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Deep alluvial valley that carried thousands of diggers from the 1850s and later bucket dredges; a scatter of farms now, with camp and pub sites along the creek.

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