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Gwynedd, Wales

Llanfachreth Dolgellau gold-belt village

Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea potterySea pottery
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: mine and farm refuse.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Llanfachreth is an upland village above Dolgellau in the Welsh gold belt, near the Clogau and Bontddu workings; farm and mine-fringe ground holds 19th-century refuse.

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