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Hauts-de-France
Saint-Omer Aa canal and marais barge gardens
Riverbank Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Clay pipe stemsAlso reported: 1700s-1920s faience.
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
1835 historic-map era
Canalised Aa port town beside the marais audomarois, where vegetable barges worked garden plots for centuries; 18th-c Saint-Omer faience and later refuse in waterway fill.
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