The bottles were found in cess pits or rubbish pits. Over 60% of the champagne and wine bottles were found in trench 27, within the property of 60 Lonsdale Street, a brothel owned by Mrs Bond and her husband at the beginning of the 1880s. The property con sisted of a brick house of five rooms described as a ‘store’. Morris Cohen, who was the tenant in 1879-83, described his business as a ‘furniture mart’; police considered that such a business was often a front for a brothel. (1882 Royal Commission Report, Q4076.) The property was also adjacent to 56-58 Lonsdale Street, owned by Henry Raphael, a well-known brothel-owner. It appears, then, that the excavated material from this trench is associated with one or more brothels.