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Altenburg Saxon colony village lots

Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Hill village of the 1839 Saxon Lutheran colony behind the river bottoms, with continuous German farm-town occupation; deep backyard privies and farm dumps from the colony era on.

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