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Macetown ghost town, Arrow gorge

Old dump ground Documented siteProhibited, look only

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: ruins, batteries and interpreted sites only.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Quartz-mining town twelve river crossings up the Arrow gorge, abandoned by the 1930s; stone cottages and stamper batteries remain in a DOC-managed reserve.

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