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New Diggings lead hamlet hollows
Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Clay pipe stems
Sea potteryAlso reported: tools.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Lead-rush hamlet of the 1820s-40s along a mining creek, with an 1844 mission church and little else left of a once-crowded camp; camp-era refuse lies in the hollows.
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