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Naftalan oil-bath spa refuse
Old dump ground Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Sea pottery
Old bottlesAlso 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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