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Young, Lambing Flat diggings town

Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

The Lambing Flat rush of 1860-61, infamous for anti-Chinese riots, seeded a substantial cherry-district town; diggings refuse spreads through town-edge paddocks.

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