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Just got back from a weeks digging at Broken Hill 400 miles away with my brother and a friend.
Did not get anything exiting but as this is basically the only dump we have to dig we treat these trips as a holiday and anything we find is a bonus as this site has been hammered for 35 years but there is still small amounts to be found. Plenty of wildlife around the dump site and always saw Emus in the morning and in the late afternoon the Kangaroos came out of the hills to feed on the flats which are the only green patches.We were lucky that the week before we went up there was 2 inches of rain (only had 2 inches for the previous 6 months there) and we were able to probe some trenches that had been dug for sewerage disposal. These were about 4 feet wide x 4 feet deep with about a foot of ash,dried poo and a few bottles covered with 3 feet of clay.The majority of the bottles came from the main dump area which dates from around 1890 to 1920[/align] [/align]
Did not get anything exiting but as this is basically the only dump we have to dig we treat these trips as a holiday and anything we find is a bonus as this site has been hammered for 35 years but there is still small amounts to be found. Plenty of wildlife around the dump site and always saw Emus in the morning and in the late afternoon the Kangaroos came out of the hills to feed on the flats which are the only green patches.We were lucky that the week before we went up there was 2 inches of rain (only had 2 inches for the previous 6 months there) and we were able to probe some trenches that had been dug for sewerage disposal. These were about 4 feet wide x 4 feet deep with about a foot of ash,dried poo and a few bottles covered with 3 feet of clay.The majority of the bottles came from the main dump area which dates from around 1890 to 1920[/align] [/align]
