Victoria
Bright, Ovens River sluicing town
Riverbank Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Stoneware ginger beers
Nails and fittingsPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Upper Ovens alluvial and later dredging town from the 1850s; dredge-turned river flats and old hotel and camp sites line the valley.
Keep exploring nearby
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