Stoke-on-Trent: Etruria canal shraff banks

Where: UK & Ireland · Europe · approx. 53.02, -2.2 (vicinity only)

Why this spot: Heart of the Potteries: from Wedgwood's 1769 Etruria works onward, pottery waste (shraff) was tipped along the Trent & Mersey canal and into marl holes across the six towns

What turns up: blue and white transferware sherds, saggar and kiln furniture, marks and backstamps, bottle-oven brick

Access: Gray area.

Canal towpath and regeneration land: no digging on Canal & River Trust property, landowner permission needed on any private plot; surface sherds in disturbed ground only

Satellite view, historic-map overlays, tide/flow context and field notes are in the app. Exact research detail is part of Pro.