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Vast landscapes of dredge soil, altered ecosystems, and associated infrastructure are evidence of the evolution of gold mining in an increasingly industrial progression. While only a handful of dredges are known to exist as archaeological sites or are preserved as historical sites, the material record of their activities is much larger. These dredges are, as floating craft, maritime archaeological resources as well as historical and mining archaeological resources. Floating in ponds they had self-excavated, these large floating industrial facilities represented the last stage of placer gold mining as the late nineteenth century transitioned into the early twentieth.
Based on a North American assessment of all known surviving examples, including those preserved as historic sites as well as archaeological resources, the maritime origins, of these craft are clear in the construction of their hulls as well as the matrix in which they worked. Bucket-ladder dredges are a relatively rare maritime archaeological and historical resource.
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