Nigeria, Enugu State
Enugu colliery town and coal-railway ground
Old dump ground Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottlesAlso reported: colliery tallies, enamelware.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Coal found at Udi in 1909 created Enugu, its collieries feeding a railway to Port Harcourt from 1916; colliery camps and yards hold early industrial refuse.
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