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KINGSTON, CAMBS.

In the 1871 there was only one recorded as working in the coprolite industry and he was 53 year old Henry Mills of Witeman‘s Lane. He was described in the census as a ”Coprolite Labourer Ganger“ but there were no others in the village mentioned, quite possibly terming themselves labourers. As the greensand in which the fossils were found outcropped in the nearby Eversdens and there are no records of it having been dug in the parish, Mills likely walked to work in the nearby pits.