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Lower Saxony
Papenburg fen-canal shipbuilding town
Riverbank Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Nails and fittingsPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Germany's oldest fen colony, laced with ship canals where wooden brigs were built and peat barges loaded; canal-side refuse spans the 1800s.
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.