Northland
Te Kopuru sawmill town on the Wairoa
Riverbank Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Nails and fittings
Buttons and bucklesAlso 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.
Keep exploring nearby
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