Northland
Ahipara gumfields plateau village
Old dump ground Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: 1880s-1930s gum spears and spades, tins.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Village at the foot of Ninety Mile Beach below a plateau gumfield that supported hundreds of Dalmatian and Maori diggers into the 1930s; camp sites dot the plateau.
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