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Potosi lead-diggings brewery hollow
Riverbank Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: lead scrap.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Lead-mining hollow running down to a silted Mississippi boat landing, with a brewery operating from 1852; mine-era and brewery refuse line the hollow and old landing ground.
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