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Mintaro slate and bullocky village
Old dump ground Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Clay pipe stems
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: slate offcuts.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0), Unknown (Public domain).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
1840s bullock-team watering stop on the Burra copper route, later famous for slate; stone cottages and inn yards hold early refuse.
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