Victoria
Blackwood Lerderderg diggings village
Riverbank Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Gold
Clay pipe stemsAlso reported: hut hardware.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), BLM Alaska (Public domain), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
1855 rush village on the Lerderderg River in the Wombat forest; hillside hut sites and gully camps ringed the township for decades.
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