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Avoca, Pyrenees diggings town

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Clay pipe stemsClay pipe stems
Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles

Photos 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.

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