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Victoria

Daylesford, Jim Crow diggings spa town

Old dump ground Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: stoneware.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Jim Crow Creek rush of the 1850s became a mineral-springs resort with Swiss-Italian settlement; long refuse record from hotels and guesthouses in surrounding gullies, much now reserved.

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