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West, Oregon
Hampton Butte OR
Green petrified wood beds
Fossil site Source-confirmed findsLegal to collect
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Petrified wood
Agates and jasper
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: limb casts, agatized wood.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Jon Sullivan (Public domain), Teerui (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Rockhounding locality: high-desert butte east of Bend famous for copper-green petrified wood and limb casts found almost nowhere else
Green Hampton Butte wood is a named lapidary material sold commercially; digs documented by Oregon Discovery, Yes Dirt and NW Rockhounding
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Remote dirt roadsNo water or shade, wet clay roads impassable after rain
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