Topic ID #12946 - posted 7/19/2011 10:56 AM
Jennifer Palmer
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Tasmania convict past unearthed
Jennifer Palmer
Webmaster
Convict past unearthed
Posted July 19, 2011 20:31:23
Archeologists in Tasmania have found more than 300 convict-era artefacts under the floorboards of an old chapel.
The discovery at Hobart's historic Penitentiary Chapel includes coins, clay pipes, home-made wooden gambling tokens, a writing slate and bones.
Archeologist David Roe says it's particularly exciting because the artefacts are very personal items belonging to the prisoners.
Read more here.
Posted July 19, 2011 20:31:23
Archeologists in Tasmania have found more than 300 convict-era artefacts under the floorboards of an old chapel.
The discovery at Hobart's historic Penitentiary Chapel includes coins, clay pipes, home-made wooden gambling tokens, a writing slate and bones.
Archeologist David Roe says it's particularly exciting because the artefacts are very personal items belonging to the prisoners.
Read more here.
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