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Pachuca silver and Cornish mining town

Old dump ground Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: 1820s-1930s Cornish-era mine refuse, machinery scrap.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Ancient silver district industrialised in the 1820s by Cornish miners who left mine terraces, dumps and the paste, worked through the 1900s.

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