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Mackay White Knob copper smelter town
Riverbank Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: crockery.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Built 1901 for the White Knob copper mines and smelter above the Big Lost River; smelter bench and river-margin dumps date the copper years.
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