Southland
Orepuki beach gold and shale town
Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Nails and fittings
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: shale-works brick.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Unknown (Public domain).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Black-sand beach gold town from the 1860s that later hosted a shale works; the shifted township and works ground back Monkey Island beach.
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