Darling river finds

[aussiebottlo]

Found a new site yesterday, not a great day but found a few pontilled blacks. It took a long time to find the exact spot as there is no evidence on the bank. Will head back as soon as I can to do some serious diving as it appears to be pretty early.

 

[aussiebottlo]

Here is a pic of the river there was a hotel on far bank from 1855

 

[capsoda]

May be the mother load. Nice blacks. Enjoyed the pics.

 

[dirtflicker]

Those are some nice "old" bottles you found there...I have been digging a late 1800's dump and only wish I could dig a few nice old pontiled ales like those! NICE!

 

[IRISH]

looks like it's got good potential for some nice goldfields bottles there. How deep is the water there? that spot looks fairly typical of a lot of our inland rivers.

You need to metal detect that pubsite [] .

 

[aussiebottlo]

Irish, the water is up to 5 metres deep in the water hole. The pubsite ison private property and I dont have permission to dig "still working on it". This is the spot I will find my Thistle Whisky[]. I found several broken goldfield pickles and oils. The sediment is up to 600mm deep so it will be hard work.

 

[southern Maine diver]

Hey John...

Great looking bottles... do you find anything in or along the river banks?

Wayne

 

[aussiebottlo]

Wayne,

In places I do but more often than not there is nothing on the banks. Believe it or not these rivers do run at the top of the bank at times and this tends to wash the bottles down.

The land above the high water mark is private property and it is hard to get permission.

John

 

[aussiebottlo]

When I look for bottles a lot of time is spent in the library or study doing research. Here is a copy of a map I found showing the new site I am looking at. There was a lot of buildings on these station properties in the 1800s- lot buildings=lot of people=lot of bottles.

 

[CALDIGR2]

Nice glass, aussiebottlo. Gotta love that river divin'. Find me a Kangaroo Whiskey from Sydney. will 'ya? After 5 yrs of searching I lost out on the last one.