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Te Kopuru sawmill town on the Wairoa

Riverbank Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings
Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles

Also reported: crockery.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Unknown (Public domain).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Company sawmill town from the 1870s milling kauri rafted down the Wairoa; mill workers' rows and wharf ground line the riverbank.

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