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New South Wales
Parkes, Bushmans lead town
Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Buttons and bucklesPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Unknown (Public domain).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Grew from the Bushmans gold lead of the 1870s into a rail junction town; old lead workings and tips sit under and around the modern town fringe.
Keep exploring nearby
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