China, Hebei
Tangshan Kaiping coal mines and first railway ground
Old dump ground Documented siteProhibited, look only
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Coins and tokensAlso reported: 1880s-1940s industrial relics.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
The Kaiping Mines opened in 1878 with China's first standard-gauge railway hauling coal to tidewater; the 1976 earthquake razed and buried the old mining town.
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