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Kanowna vanished goldfields town

Old dump ground Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: marked townsite and surface context only, protected.

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

A town of 12,000 with 16 hotels in 1899, completely vanished; marked streets and cellar depressions on the woodline plain northeast of Kalgoorlie.

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