Victoria
Avoca, Pyrenees diggings town
Riverbank Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Clay pipe stems
Buttons and bucklesPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0), Unknown (Public domain).
Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
1850s alluvial town on the Avoca River at the foot of the Pyrenees; river-flat camps and hotel sites plus small tips on grazing land.
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.