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Lower Saxony

Papenburg fen-canal shipbuilding town

Riverbank Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Photos 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.

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