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Montereau Seine-Yonne confluence faience town

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea potterySea pottery
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: kiln waste.

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

Why this spot

1835 historic-map era

Confluence river town with a major faience works (later Creil-Montereau) from the 1740s to 1955; factory waste and transferware seconds entered riverside fill.

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