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Silver City (San Vicente Creek)

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokensCoins and tokens
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: bitters.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on San Vicente Creek (the Big Ditch)

Floods gutted Main Street into the Big Ditch arroyo, cutting through old bottle-bearing fill.

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