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Gwynedd, Wales

Llyn Celyn and the drowned village of Tryweryn

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, farm debris.

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

Capel Celyn was flooded in 1965 to make Llyn Celyn reservoir; chapel, farms and cottages lie under the water and re-emerge at low water in drought.

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