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Coin stash discovered at Port Arthur archaeology dig gives rare insight into illicit lives of convicts
Prisoners at historic Port Arthur were not allowed to carry money. So how did a pile of silver shillings worth about a week’s salary for one of the penal colony’s overseers end up buried beneath the convicts’ workshop?
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- An archaeological dig at the Port Arthur site has uncovered a stash…
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