Is it legal to collect at Hong Kong: Peak hillsides + island villages?

Restricted. HK law defines antiquity as pre-1800, so colonial bottles are lawful to collect - BUT most hillsides and villages now fall inside country parks where digging and removal are barred. Check boundaries parcel by parcel.

What can you find at Hong Kong: Peak hillsides + island villages?

Watsons aerated waters, opium bottles, Trappist Dairy milks, stoneware

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Peak hillsides + island villages

Old dump ground Documented siteRestricted

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottles

Sea pottery

Also reported: Watsons aerated waters, Trappist Dairy milks.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

1841-1941

Two independent sources: Gwulo forum records Watsons torpedo bottles dug behind the Governor's summer residence and an 1880s Dutch gin near Matilda Hospital; a profiled collector has pulled ~40 bottles a day from abandoned Hakka villages on Lamma and Lantau since 1984. HK burned its refuse - few concentrated dumps.