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Castle Dale (Cottonwood Creek, Castle Valley)

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: Early-1900s valley-town refuse: local bottling and druggist glass, mercantile and ranch-supply debris, and Cottonwood Creek bank and back-lot dumps behind the blocks on the 1917 sheet, with older 1880s settlement material possible on the creek bottoms..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

1910s+ Sanborn-mapped town on On Cottonwood Creek in Castle Valley, in the San Rafael and Green River country of Emery County

Emery County seat on a Castle Valley creek; confirmed Sanborn coverage begins 1917, so deposits skew early twentieth century, with the creek bottoms the best older ground.

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