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Naftalan oil-bath spa refuse

Old dump ground Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea potterySea pottery
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: 1890s-1930s ointment tins, pharmacy glass.

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Naftalan oil baths were commercialized in the 1890s and the crude was tinned and shipped as ointment, leaving early spa and packaging refuse.

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