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TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA—At the location of a former parking lot in the city of Hobart, a team from the University of Tasmania has uncovered artifacts relating to the site’s past history as a nineteenth-century farmer’s market, reports ABC News. Tokens for free beers or to signify good credit, coins, jewelry, and even parts of a leather saddle and riding boots are among the objects unearthed thus far on the site of what will be a new dormitory for students of the university. The site is one of the oldest parts of the city, with newly excavated remains of buildings dating back to the 1820s. To read about a prison for female convicts in Tasmania, go to “Convict Mothers.”
