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Briare canal port and enamel-button works

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles
Trade beadsTrade beads
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: stoneware.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Unknown (Public domain), Unknown (CC BY 4.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1835 historic-map era

Loire-side canal port whose Bapterosses works made enamel buttons and beads by the billion from the 1850s; factory seconds turn up in local fill and canal margins.

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