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Selters original Selterswasser spring village

Old dump ground Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea potterySea pottery
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: seal fragments, glass.

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Niederselters spring gave the world the word seltzer, exporting millions of stoneware jugs from the 1700s to 1911; village-edge dumps and the Emsbach margins hold broken kruegen and seals.

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