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Lancashire, England

Colne Leeds-Liverpool cotton-town wharves

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: glass.

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Cotton-weaving town at the Pennine end of the Leeds-Liverpool Canal from the 1810s. Canal and mill margins hold works refuse.

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