tinpan
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"Kirkwood Road" 200 relics found and i,m as dry as a bone [100 degrees]
hi all.Kirkwood road , Eaglehawk was the service road to the gold-feilds between 1854 til 1930's Kirkwood road got its name from a famous gold-mining family and not the rather interesting member know as" KirK" Numerous hotels, store sheds,shops and merchants lined the street, some of these building still stand today.Over 2 days ,with the temperature at about 100 degrees i hit as many sites as possible.Some of the finds where hand -dug ,other where found in old out building and around "bucket privys" kirkwood road was used by the chinese , who had a camp just west of the town on the fork of the creek.some 2 thousand chinese mined and worked here.The was the second largest chinese camp in the area, the other was at White Hills camp 7 mile west.In my search for relics and coins i found some from several countries, British American.Australian and french too.There is numerous pics of old buildings,out sheds, shops and disused blocks where nothing stands anymore and a few deep mine sites and tailing dumps.
Some relics left in the building where protected and grounds vary from bad to good.Only had a few hours to clean a few to share and there just heeps of them.Mit have too add pics when get around to cleaning a few more.
I,m bound by history in this area and theres not much too be found before 1840 here.Where i lose age i gain in varity and some of these item are rare, others more common. Enjoy a large interesting Colonial pic show and HH too all Even kirkie
The temperature is expected to get hotter this week and i will still be going after work.
hi all.Kirkwood road , Eaglehawk was the service road to the gold-feilds between 1854 til 1930's Kirkwood road got its name from a famous gold-mining family and not the rather interesting member know as" KirK" Numerous hotels, store sheds,shops and merchants lined the street, some of these building still stand today.Over 2 days ,with the temperature at about 100 degrees i hit as many sites as possible.Some of the finds where hand -dug ,other where found in old out building and around "bucket privys" kirkwood road was used by the chinese , who had a camp just west of the town on the fork of the creek.some 2 thousand chinese mined and worked here.The was the second largest chinese camp in the area, the other was at White Hills camp 7 mile west.In my search for relics and coins i found some from several countries, British American.Australian and french too.There is numerous pics of old buildings,out sheds, shops and disused blocks where nothing stands anymore and a few deep mine sites and tailing dumps.
Some relics left in the building where protected and grounds vary from bad to good.Only had a few hours to clean a few to share and there just heeps of them.Mit have too add pics when get around to cleaning a few more.
I,m bound by history in this area and theres not much too be found before 1840 here.Where i lose age i gain in varity and some of these item are rare, others more common. Enjoy a large interesting Colonial pic show and HH too all Even kirkie
The temperature is expected to get hotter this week and i will still be going after work.
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and great pics to, always love to see your post, congrats 
Great digs 
It's not like it's tucked away down 20 miles of dirt road in the middle of nowhere... 
