Is it legal to collect at Dudleytown hilltop farm settlement?

Permission required. The land has been privately owned since 1924 by Dark Entry Forest, Incorporated and is closed to the public because of vandalism; entry without the owner's consent is trespass.

What can you find at Dudleytown hilltop farm settlement?

colonial coppers, large cents, buttons, buckles, hand-forged nails, farm hardware, ceramic sherds

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Dudleytown hilltop farm settlement

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Nails and fittings

Buttons and buckles

Sea pottery

Also reported: large cents.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Unknown (Public domain), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

1740s-1800s hill farm and iron-country settlement

Part of Cornwall settled in the early 1740s by Thomas Griffis and several Dudley families, who cleared the hilltop for farms. Poor soil, cheaper Midwest land in the mid-1800s and the end of the local iron industry drained it, and it later gained a haunted reputation.View source →