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UK & Ireland, England
Stoke-on-Trent
Etruria canal shraff banks
Old dump ground Inferred from historyGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Sea pottery
Old bottlesAlso reported: saggar and kiln furniture, marks and backstamps.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Heart of the Potteries: from Wedgwood's 1769 Etruria works onward, pottery waste (shraff) was tipped along the Trent & Mersey canal and into marl holes across the six towns
Pottery industry and Etruria mill documented; shraff in the canal banks is historical inference and towpath surface observation, no published dig locality
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Canal edgeContaminated made ground in places
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