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UK & Ireland, Wales
Buckley
Pottery-town waste mounds
Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Buttons and buckles
Sea potteryAlso reported: black-glazed coarseware, kiln furniture, wasters.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Unknown (Public domain), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
Fourteen potteries worked Buckley's clay by the early 1800s (first opened 1737, last kiln fired 1946), leaving sherd and waster mounds across the town's clay pits
Pottery count and dates documented by Wikishire and the Buckley Society; individual waste mounds are known locally rather than formally published
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Old clay pits with steep flooded facesMade ground
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