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East, Virginia
Alexandria VA
Old Town privy yards
Old dump ground Source-confirmed findsPermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Clay pipe stemsAlso reported: doll parts, coins from yard digs.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Why this spot
George Washington's port city, its 18th- and 19th-century privies and made-land waterfront dense with bottles under one of America's strictest city archaeology codes
The Virginia Bottles digging group's permission digs in Old Town yards are covered by name in The Zebra and Alexandria Living, with finds shown
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Deep shaft collapseUtilities in urban yards, lead-contaminated fill
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