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Sumpter dredge-field gold town
Old dump ground Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: burned-layer items.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Blue Mountain gold town of the 1890s, burned 1917, with the dredge and its tailing fields beside the townsite.
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