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Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad

Melnik wine town gully and cellar fringe

Old dump ground Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Coins and tokensCoins and tokens

Also reported: glazed ware, not diggable.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Once a wealthy Greek-Bulgarian wine town of thousands, mostly abandoned after 1913, with ruined house plots and wine refuse in the sand gullies.

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