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Halls Creek and the old townsite ruins

Old dump ground Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: surface ruins and interpreted sites only.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

WA's first gold rush in 1885 happened in the remote Kimberley; the mud-brick ruins of Old Halls Creek sit 15 km from the relocated modern town.

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