Question 1

Is it legal to collect at Natchez (Mississippi River bluff and Natchez Under-the-Hill)?

Accepted Answer

Gray area. In Mississippi the bed of the navigable Mississippi River below the ordinary high-water mark is state-owned public trust land where removing historic artifacts is restricted; the batture and bluff uplands are typically private and need the landowner's permission, and state law protects archaeological sites and any unmarked burials.

Question 2

What can you find at Natchez (Mississippi River bluff and Natchez Under-the-Hill)?

Accepted Answer

Steamboat-era whiskey flasks and applied-lip bottles, salt-glazed stoneware jugs, clay and stone marbles, cut nails, and 1880s pharmacy bottles in the Under-the-Hill batture mud and old privy pits behind the bluff-top mercantile row.

Natchez (Mississippi River bluff and Natchez Under-the-Hill)

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