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Flanders (West Flanders), Flanders

Damme silted outport canalside

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea potterySea pottery
Clay pipe stemsClay pipe stems
Old bottlesOld bottles

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Medieval outport of Bruges left inland by silting, on the tree-lined Damse Vaart dug under Napoleon; village and barge refuse in canal margins.

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