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New South Wales

Bourke, back of beyond river port

Riverbank Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Head of Darling navigation from the 1860s, the port that defined the outback in Lawson's writing; wharf remnants and hotel refuse along the levee banks.

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