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Wittenberge Elbe factory-town riverside

Riverbank Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: enamelware, industrial small finds.

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Elbe industrial town with an oil mill from the 1820s and the big Singer sewing-machine works from 1904; worker housing and river harbour meant heavy 1870s-1930s dumping.

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