Cumbria, England
Duddon Bridge charcoal iron furnace
Riverbank Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: 1750s-1860s furnace refuse.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Eighteenth-century charcoal blast furnace beside the Duddon at the head of the estuary. Furnace, charcoal and works refuse by the river.
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