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Vermont, New Hampshire

Wells River

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: A rail-junction village at the Wells and Connecticut confluence.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Connecticut River at the Wells River confluence

A small but busy junction, so trade bottles concentrate near the depot and hotels. Dig permissioned uplands rather than the boundary riverbed.

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