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Frisco UT

Horn Silver kiln camp

Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokensCoins and tokens

Also reported: eyes-only: beehive kilns, headframes, cemetery, broad purple-glass and can scatter.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Why this spot

Wild 1880s silver camp of the Horn Silver Mine, 23 saloons at peak; five beehive charcoal kilns and cemetery survive in the West Desert

Documented townsite and NRHP-listed charcoal kilns; ruins, mining equipment and debris fields described by multiple guides

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Many open unfenced shaftsDangerous mine gases, no shade or water

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