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Chillagoe smelter town camps
Old dump ground Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Nails and fittings
Coins and tokensAlso reported: crockery.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Copper smelting town from 1901 with a railway, big hotels and mixed mining camps; extensive tips spread beyond the smelter reserve.
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