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Flanders (Antwerp), Flanders
Boom Rupel brickworks riverside
Riverbank Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Clay pipe stemsAlso reported: brick-stamp waste.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Centre of the Rupel brick industry whose clay pits and drying sheds lined the tidal river; workers' refuse and brick waste fill the old works ground.
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