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West, Colorado
Leadville CO
Cloud City silver lots
Old dump ground Source-confirmed findsPermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Codd and soda bottles
Coins and tokens
Old bottlesAlso reported: whiskies, purple sun-colored glass, miners' tins.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Two-mile-high silver boomtown of 30,000, whose 1880s privies and hillside dumps hold Colorado's densest bottle record
Leadville Herald feature on local bottle collectors digging Western history; Leadville mining bottles thread on Antique-Bottles.net
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
10150 ft altitude, open shafts and adits on fringes, mine-waste soils carry lead
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