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Kanpur Ganges ghats and mill-era cantonment fringe

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

East India Company cantonment that became the leather and textile mill city of British India from the 1860s; ghats, mill yards and cantonment fringe accumulated a century of discard along the Ganges.

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