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Ceredigion, Wales

Nant-y-moch reservoir drowned Rheidol farms

Lake shore Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea potterySea pottery
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: glass.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Nant-y-moch reservoir, built in the 1960s for the Rheidol hydro scheme, flooded a chapel and hill farms in the upper Rheidol; foundations show at low water.

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