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Victoria

Rheola nugget-country hamlet

Old dump ground Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

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

Also reported: camp ironwork.

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

Hamlet at the Berlin diggings that yielded some of the world's largest nuggets in the 1860s-70s; store, pub and camp sites dot the surrounding box-ironbark ground.

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