Victoria
Smythesdale, Woady Yaloak diggings town
Old dump ground Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Clay pipe stemsPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Hub of the Woady Yaloak field southwest of Ballarat from the mid-1850s, once far bigger than today; shanty grounds and tips trail along the old leads.
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