Arizona
Tucson Santa Cruz townsite
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Codd and soda bottles
Amber
Old bottlesAlso reported: Deep territorial layers along the old presidio and Meyer Street district: hand blown squares, Chinese Bao Ding and opium tins from the barrio, and Mexican olive jar shards near the acequia lines by the Santa Cruz..
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Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Santa Cruz River
Oldest continuously settled townsite in the state with the earliest LOC Sanborn coverage of 1886; privy digging in the old barrio is legendary but almost all under pavement or private lots.
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